The Discomfort Zone
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History is a new memoir by author Jonathan Franzen, who received the National Book Award for his novel, The Corrections, in 2001.
The scheduled release date for The Discomfort Zone is September 5th, 2006, with the page count listed at 208.
According to L´Espresso[1], this autobiography by Jonathan Franzen reflects the values and contradictions of, especially, the American midwest in the 1950s. The Charlie Brown figure of the Peanuts cartoons by Charles Schultz is held to exemplarily represent life of the American middle class in the author´s home town Webster Groves and countless similar towns of the midwest. Values such as the love of nature are represented as being related to traditional protestant values, and as being now less firmly rooted in society because of the loss of importance of traditional religious beliefs.
- ^ C´era una volta il Midwest, L´Espresso, August 24, 2006, page 120
