John Burnham Schwartz, Author . Doubleday/Talese $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-50344-0
Not since Love Story
wallowed shamelessly in schmaltz has a novel cast such a sentimental haze over college romance as this third novel by Schwartz (Bicycle Days; Reservation Road). Julian Rose, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard in...
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John Burnham Schwartz, Author . Doubleday/Talese $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-51571-9
Schwartz bases his finely wrought fourth novel on the life of Empress Michiko of Japan, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family. Haruko Tsuneyasu grows up in postwar rural Japan and studies at Sacred Heart University, where she
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John Burnham Schwartz, Author Summit Books $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66600-2
Fresh out of Yale, Alec Stern spends a summer working in an American computer company's Tokyo offices. Schwartz, a 23-year-old Harvard grad, vividly sets the scene of his promising if overly self-absorbed debut novel. Alec's romance with a 33-year-ol
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John Burnham Schwartz, Author Plume Books $8.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-452-26421-2
Fresh out of Yale, Alec Stern spends a summer working in an American computer company's Tokyo office. PW called this a ``promising, if overly self-absorbed debut novel.'' (May)
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John Burnham Schwartz, Author, John Burnham Schwartz, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (292p) ISBN 978-0-375-40263-0
""I wasn't rich, but my life was secure. That had always been its fundamental premise,"" observes Ethan Learner, an English professor at a small college in Connecticut. Moments later, his 10-year-old son, Josh, is killed by a hit-and-run driver,...
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John Burnham Schwartz, Author, Janet Song, Read by , read by Janet Song. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5873-3
Schwartz's novel of the young woman, not of royal heritage, chosen to marry Japan's crown prince after WWII, is a delicate portrait of a simultaneously blessed and circumscribed existence. The book is written in the first person, making a...
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John Burnham Schwartz. Random, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6845-6
The literary tradition of the middle-class American male as a creaky vessel teetering on the verge of moral meltdown yet struggling to reconstruct himself has found its latest and arguably most adept practitioner in Schwartz (Reservation Road). Like
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John Burnham Schwartz. Random House, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6846-3
In this gripping historical about the defection of Stalin’s only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Schwartz (The Commoner) explores the wider political context that sharpens private tragedy. In 1967, the author’s father, lawyer Alan U. Schwartz,...
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