| The Discomfort Zone | |
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| Author(s) | Jonathan Franzen |
| Cover artist | Jacket design by Lynn Buckley Jacket art: "Map of a Man's Heart", from McCall's Magazine, January 1960, pp. 32-33. Adapted from nineteenth-century originals by Jo (Lowrey) Leeds and the editors of McCall's. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication date | September 5, 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 195 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-374-29919-6 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC Number | 63277685 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 B 22 |
| LC Classification | PS3556.R352 Z46 2006 |
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History is a 2006 memoir by Jonathan Franzen, who received the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel The Corrections in 2001.
According to L´Espresso, The Discomfort Zone reflects the values and contradictions of the American midwest in the 1960s. Franzen holds up Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoons as an exemplary representation of life of the American middle class in the author's home town of Webster Groves, Missouri, and countless similar towns. Values such as the love of nature are described as being related to traditional Protestant values, and as waning because of the decline of traditional religious belief.[1]
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