by Jonathan Franzen · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007234257
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«The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History» is Jonathan Franzen's memoir, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Franzen recalls his childhood in Webster Groves, Missouri, as the youngest of a family of boys and his uncomfortable transition to adult life. He alternates family snapshots from the 1970s with youthful episodes and personal reflections, from Kafka to birdwatching, with irony and self-criticism.
This edition was published in 2007; the work originally appeared in 2006.
For readers of non-fiction and contemporary American narrative, especially followers of Jonathan Franzen's work.
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.
