The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen
Desmond Toak works as a repo man in the fictional town of Johnsonville, located in hurricane alley on the Florida coast. He has a troubled relationship with his father; their pastor's gay son, Bayonne, has become implicated in a suicide by gas asphyxiation of his boyfriend; and the woman Jesmond loves, Peaches Raymond, is married (to a threatening man they call Special Ed). As various deaths, disasters, and disappearances occur in the days leading up to the arrival of Hurricane Aretha, Woodward ties together these unruly plot points with madcap glee. As lyrical and Charles Baxter, and as sexy as Zane, Woodward writes with an agile maturity that belies his status as a first-time novelist. Cadillac Orpheus is a crafted, genre-defying romp -- by turns terrifying, hilarious, brave, brazen, and above all, sincere. Solon Timothy Woodward studied philosophy and biology at Harvard and holds a degree in medicine from the University of Virginia. His short fiction has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. A practicing physician, Woodward lives with his family in Jacksonville, Florida.Jonathan Franzen (Western Springs, Illinois, 1959) was named one of the best young novelists in the United States by the prestigious magazine Granta in 1996. Until then, he had written the novels Ciudad veintisiete (1988) and Movimiento fuerte (1992), but it was the publication of Las correcciones (Salamandra, 2012) in 2001 that sealed his immense narrativo talent: he won the National Book Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Libertad (Salamandra, 2011), a novel that received widespread acclaim from a wide range of critics and experts from a variety of countries, was the final nail in the coffin for him in 2010. In Spain, he was awarded the Premio a la Mejor Novela del Año by the readers of the magazine Qué Leer. Cinco años más después, en otoño de 2015, la publicación dePureza reconmocionó a los lectores de habla inglesa, y lo consagró como uno de los grandes escritores norteamericanos de nuestra epocha In addition, Franzen is the author of five nonfiction works: How to Be Alone (2002), Zona templada (2006), Más afuera (Salamandra, 2012), The Kraus Project (2013), and El end del fin de la Tierra (Salamandra, 2019).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312426408 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312426402 |
| Title | The Discomfort Zone |
| Author | Jonathan Franzen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2007-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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