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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. Read by Jonathan Franzen. Simultaneous.
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- PublisherHighbridge Co
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1598870548
- ISBN 13 9781598870541
- BindingAudio CD
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Book Description Audio Book (CD). Condition: As New. No Jacket. Special Edition. Advance Reader's Copy in paperback & the Audio Book in CD of Franzen's memoir, sold as a set. "As Jonathan Franzen tells it, he was the kind of boy who was afraid of spiders, school dances, urinals, music teachers, boomerangs, popular girls---and his parents. THE DISCOMFORT ZONE is Franzen's intimate memoir of growing up squirming in his own uber-sensitive skin, frm a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person,' through a strangely happy adolscence, into an adult with strong and inconvenient pass. His story daringly cascades from moments of high drama into multilayered fields of sometimes truculent, sometimes piercing, always entertaining investigation and insight. Whether he's writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka's fiction on his own 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. His personal history of a Midwestern youth and a New York adulthood is warmed by the same blend of comic scrutiny and affection that characterizes his fiction; the result is an arresting portrait of a unique American heart and mind." ARC is clean & tight, unread, in AS NEW condition, w/no creases in spine & no jacket as issued. Audio book is Unabridged in 6 CDs, read by Franzen & in AS NEW condition as well. All is quite presentable & collectible. Enjoyable too to listen & read along. Seller Inventory # RUB935
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