The Discomfort Zone
Jonathan Franzen, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (195p) ISBN 978-0-374-29919-4
National Book Award–winner Franzen's first foray into memoir begins and ends with his mother's death in Franzen's adulthood. In between, he takes a sarcastic, humorous and intimate look at the painful awkwardness of adolescence. As a young observer rather than a participant, Franzen offers a fresh take on the sometimes tumultuous, sometimes uneventful America of the 1960s and '70s. A not very popular, bookish kid, Franzen (
Reviewed on: 05/29/2006
Release date: 09/01/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
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