The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312426408)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own ber-sensitive skin, from a small and fundamentally ridiculous person, into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he's writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka's fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity, or the web of connections between bird watching, his all-consuming marriage, and the problem of global warming, Franzen is always feelingly engaged with the world we live in now. The Discomfort Zone is a wise, funny, and gorgeously written self-portrait by one of America's finest writers.

Author: Jonathan Franzen
ISBN-10: 0312426402
ISBN-13: 9780312426408
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2007
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.84w x 0.55d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 115282 / Discomfort Zone: A Personal History


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/23/2007 pg. 28

About the Author
Jonathan Franzen is the author of novels such as The Corrections (2001), Freedom (2010), and Crossroads (2021), and works of nonfiction, including Farther Away (2012) and The End of the End of the Earth (2018), all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.