{"product_id":"the-discomfort-zone-jonathan-franzen","title":"The Discomfort Zone (Jonathan Franzen)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eJonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. 'The Discomfort Zone' is his intimate memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person,' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It's also a portrait of a middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal insight into the decades in which America took an angry turn away from its mid-century ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eHe tells of the effects of Kafka's fiction on Franzen's protracted quest to lose his virginity, the elaborate pranks that he and his friends orchestrated from the roof of his high school, his self-inflicted travails in selling his mother's house after her death, the web of connections between his all-consuming marriage, the problem of global warming, and the life lessons to be learned in watching birds.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eSparkling, daring and arrestingly honest, 'The Discomfort Zone' is warmed by the same combination of comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that characterize Franzen's fiction. It narrates the formation of a unique mind and heart in the crucible of an everyday American family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (\u003cem\u003eThe Twenty-Seventh City\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStrong Motion\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Corrections\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFreedom\u003c\/em\u003e), two collections of essays (\u003cem\u003eFarther Away\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHow To Be Alone\u003c\/em\u003e), a memoir (\u003cem\u003eThe Discomfort Zone\u003c\/em\u003e), and, most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Kraus Project\u003c\/em\u003e. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 195 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65912897700189,"sku":"K019080450","price":9.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1908045000001A.jpg?v=1789325986","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-discomfort-zone-jonathan-franzen","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}