The Discomfort Zone

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name = The Discomfort Zone
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = 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
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publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux
release_date = September 5, 2006
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 195 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-374-29919-6 (first edition, hardback)
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"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 1950s. 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 represented as being related to traditional Protestant values and as becoming less firmly rooted in society because of the waning importance of traditional religious beliefs. ["C´era una volta il Midwest", "L´Espresso", August 24, 2006, p. 120.]

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* [http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/franzenjonathan/discomfortzone The Discomfort Zone Reviews & Scores] at Metacritic.com