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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2007-07-01
Förlag
HarperPerennial
Dimensioner
200 x 130 x 15 mm
Vikt
160 g
Antal komponenter
1
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,
SAB
Geqz Franzen, Jonathan
ISBN
9780007234257

The Discomfort Zone

A Personal History

av Jonathan Franzen
Häftad,  Engelska, 2007-07-01
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A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of The Corrections. Jonathan 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. He 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. Sparkling, 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.
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'His discreetly devastating comic timing derives from the tension between the optimism of his ambition and the reality of the attempts to deal with the experiences that have marked his career as one America's best novelist and essayist.' Times 'Franzen's memoir is cleverly written and often fun to readHe's funny and self deprecating' Sunday Telegraph Wonderful and supremely personal' Time Magazine 'Reading such honest, awkward, tender pieces as these, the socially isolated individual may feel that little bit less lonely.' New Statesman. 'The close of this book is almost miraculous; we are reminded that Franzen, at his best, can write like a dream.' FT Magazine

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Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion and The Corrections. His fiction and non-fiction appear frequently in the New Yorker and Harpers, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and the New Yorker. He lives in New York City.

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