The discomfort zone -

Jonathan Franzen

Harper Perennial

2007

195 páginas

6h 30m

ISBN-13: 9780007234257

'His discreetly devastating comic timing derives from the tension between the optimism of his ambition and the reality of the attempts to deal with the experiences that have marked his career as one America's best novelist and essayist.' Times 'Franzen's memoir is cleverly written and often fun to read!He's funny and self deprecating!' Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderful and supremely personal!' Time Magazine 'Reading such honest, awkward, tender pieces as these, the socially isolated individual may feel that little bit less lonely.' New Statesman. 'The close of this book is almost miraculous; we are reminded that Franzen, at his best, can write like a dream.' FT Magazine 'Just when you think you've had it with inconsequential memoirs along comes Jonathan Franzen to remind you that, in the right hands, even the most slight material can spring unnervingly to life. "The Discomfort Zone" is deeply loveable: clever, honest, brilliantly well-written and -- rarest of all -- funny!Franzen is an unusually plain-hearted writer -- you feel that he could not dissemble if he tried, which is rare in an artist -- and it is that which gives everything he does its unique flavour.' Rachel Cooke The Standard and The Scotsman. 'Beautifully crafted.' Metro 'There is a direct honesty behind these portraits that is admirable!this new volume will be rewarding for readers who enjoy Franzen's often humorous attempts to anatomize his divided feelings of shame and his social anxieties.' Times Literary Supplement 'In the best sense, this book takes Franzen towards that hoped-for comic archetype. He has the honesty to let the trivial and the weight co-exist and, like Schulz, has the knack of making his self-absorption universal!In our age of harsher polarities and extremes, his knowing elegies for that median time and place make luminous, essential reading.' The Observer 'Franzen's cadenced prose realises perfectly his fraught relationship with his family and his account of his failed marriage is poignant and honest' Daily Telegraph