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The discomfort zone

By Jonathan Franzen

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| Others | 9780312948412

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  • Meet me - and my parents - in St Louis

    The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen Fourth Estate £16.99, pp196 I had an English teacher who once had us underline in different coloured pencils some of the associative currents of memory from which Joyce constructed A Portrait of the Artist as a ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Saturday. Eared grebe. Got married

    The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Historyby Jonathan Franzen 195pp, Fourth Estate, £16.99 I always think that heterosexual men are overly discreet in their memoirs. They're usually worried about what their wives will think, this wife or the next. Give ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • The last chapter - my bird problem - is the weak part of this otherwise absorbing memoir. The chapters about adolescence/growing up are full of insight and even if this is autobiography you can easily see the novelist at work. The discomfort zone: "You're miserable and ashamed if you don't believe y ... (continue)

    The last chapter - my bird problem - is the weak part of this otherwise absorbing memoir. The chapters about adolescence/growing up are full of insight and even if this is autobiography you can easily see the novelist at work. The discomfort zone: "You're miserable and ashamed if you don't believe your adolescent troubles matter, but you're stupid if you do."

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