Jonathan Franzens autobiografische Geschichte seiner Jugend im Mittleren Westen und seines Erwachsenwerdens in New York. Ein glänzend erzähltes und zwingend glaubwürdiges Spiegelbild der USA seit den Siebzigern und ein liebevoll-komisches Porträt einer typischen US-Mittelschichtfamilie. iBrilliant award-winning personal history from the author of The Corrections./i
Beschreibung
A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of "The Corrections". Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri."The Discomfort Zone" is his intimate 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. It's also a portrait of a middle class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal history of the decades in which America has taken an angry turn away from its mid-century ideals. The stories told here draw on elements as varied as the effects of Kafka's fiction on Franzen's protracted quest to lose his virginity, the elaborate pranks that he and his friends orchestrated from the roof of his high school, his self-inflicted travails in selling his mother's house after her death, and the web of connections between his all-consuming marriage, the problem of global warming, and the life lessons to be learned in watching birds. These chapters of a Midwestern youth and a New York adulthood are warmed by the same combination of comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that characterize Franzen's fiction, but here the main character is the author himself. Sparkling, daring, arrestingly honest, Franzen narrates the formation of a unique mind and heart in the crucible of an everyday American family.
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Subtitled, "A Personal History". Jonathan Franzen, named one of the best American novelists under forty by "Granta" and the "New Yorker", tells his own personal story of growing up in 1970s America. His betselling "The Corrections" will be reissued with a new cover to coincide with the paperback publication of his memoirs. 'Franzen's memoir is cleverly written and often fun to read... He's funny and self deprecating...' "Sunday Telegraph"
Biografie
Jonathan Franzen, 1959 geboren, erhielt für seinen Weltbestseller «Die Korrekturen» 2001 den National Book Award. Er veröffentlichte außerdem die Romane «Die 27ste Stadt», «Schweres Beben», «Freiheit» und «Unschuld», das autobiographische Buch «Die Unruhezone», die Essaysammlungen «Anleitung zum Alleinsein», «Weiter weg» und «Das Ende vom Ende der Welt» sowie «Das Kraus-Projekt» und den Klima-Essay «Wann hören wir auf, uns etwas vorzumachen». Er ist Mitglied der amerikanischen Academy of Arts and Letters, der Berliner Akademie der Künste und des französischen Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. 2013 wurde ihm für sein Gesamtwerk der WELT-Literaturpreis verliehen, 2015 erhielt er für seinen Einsatz zum Schutz der Wildvögel den EuroNatur-Preis. Er lebt in Santa Cruz, Kalifornien.