Lynn Sharon Schwartz, Author, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author . Counterpoint $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-58243-301-1
In the unsettling title novella of Schwartz's latest collection of stories, the deluded son of Holocaust survivors feels that he can finally understand the anguish his parents have experienced when he undergoes a series of difficult dental...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author . Counterpoint $24 (297p) ISBN 978-1-58243-299-1
The aftermath of the World Trade Center attack provides a traumatic backdrop to Schwartz's latest novel (after In the Family Way
), an intellectually evocative and emotionally trenchant exploration of troubled intimacy and the constitutive...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author Scribner Book Company $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-82468-0
A woman begins suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome following the sudden death of her husband. (July)
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author Beacon Press (MA) $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7082-6
Novelist Schwartz (Disturbances in the Field) learned to read at the age of three, encouraged by parents whom she describes as ""people of the book."" As a seven-year-old, she was reading every book in her Brooklyn home and remembers being...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-688-17071-4
Schwartz breaks out of type in this hilarious chronicle of the lives and loves of an unusual ""extended family"" on New York's Upper West Side. The narrative takes on the flavor of a Woody Allen film or an intelligent sitcom as it exposes the...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-06-015479-0
In March 1983, fire gutted a building on Riverside Drive owned by Columbia University, disrupting the lives of 24 families and badly damaging the apartment of the author, also a resident in the building. Using the events surrounding the fire as her...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.45 (230p) ISBN 978-0-06-015814-9
This skillful collection reconfirms Schwartz's keen ear for dialogue and astute, multilayered portraiture of people and places. Schwartz (Disturbances in the Field, etc.), whose hallmark is realistic, recognizable characters, here explores the fluid
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-011381-5
``This skillful collection reconfirms Schwartz's keen ear for dialogue and astute, multilayered portraiture of people and places,'' wrote PW. The author, ``whose hallmark is realistic, recognizable characters, here explores the fluid tenuousness of...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (146p) ISBN 978-0-395-51091-9
Not as complex or inventive as Disturbances in the Field , this slim, nostalgic novel reincarnates, from a contemporary adult narrator's perspective, post-WW II Brooklyn, where conformity, sensible relationships and coherence wage an age-old battle...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author Penguin Books $10.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-013197-0
``Not as complex or inventive as Disturbances in the Field ,'' judged PW , ``this slim, nostalgic novel reincarnates, from a contemporary adult narrator's perspective, post-WW II Brooklyn, where conformity, sensible relationships and coherence wage...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author University Press of New England $19.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-87451-591-6
``A writer writes anything and everything,'' Schwartz ( Leaving Brooklyn ) says in her introduction to this miscellany. While all but one of the stories are selected from previous collections, the poems and essays appear for the first time in book...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author Scribner Book Company $22.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-80247-3
In the months after her husband's violent death, narrator Laura, 40, comes down with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little understood illness of the immune system. The disease prompts Laura to meditate on her companionable but loveless marriage, her...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author Beacon Press (MA) $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7220-2
A fixture in the New York literary world, novelist and essayist Schwartz (Ruined by Reading; In the Family Way) offers up 15 personal essays that explore everything from the sociological influence of the telephone to her first dress, all in charming,
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Delphinium, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-883285-92-0
Schwartz (Two-Part Inventions) reflects on small but revealing moments in this meticulously crafted collection. The title story focuses on an old married couple who confess their secrets to each other, which include past love affairs and smoking...
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Eastover, $19.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-958094-63-1
Schwartz (Leaving Brooklyn) explores the nature of identity in this eloquent novel. At the center is successful TV actor Joe Marzino, who has amnesia after being struck by a bicyclist on a street in Manhattan. Joe’s guileless and relaxed narration...
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