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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Thorndike Pr
Publication date January 9, 2007
Pages 317
Binding Hardcover
Edition Large print
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780786291960
ISBN-10 0786291966
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight 1.05 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $29.95
Other format details large print
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-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.



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780007234240 Book cover for 9780374299194 Book cover for 9780786291960
 
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Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (January 9, 2007)
9780786291960 | details & prices | 317 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $29.95
About: The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.
from Harpercollins Pub Ltd (October 2, 2006)
9780007234240 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.82 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Written by the author of 'The Corrections', this is a 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.
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 5, 2006)
9780374299194 | details & prices | 195 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.78 lbs | List price $22.00
About: The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780312426408
 
Reprint edition from Picador USA (August 21, 2007)
9780312426408 | details & prices | 208 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $14.00
About: An intimate memoir by the award-winning author of The Corrections describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, the influence of Kafka's fiction on his quest to lose his virginity, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, global warming, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.
Miscellaneous
Book cover for 9780374707620
 
1 edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (August 24, 2010)
9780374707620 | details & prices | 208 pages | List price $9.99

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