Books written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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Fatigue Artist
Personally" — Grace sighs — "I think the greatest danger would be getting bored to death with each other." "Not necessarily. Not if they weren't bored with each other to begin with. I can imagine a couple of people I could be tied to ...
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Prize Stories 1979: The O. Henry Awards
A thuggish girl named Karen from my sixth - grade class was visiting me one afternoon with a silly , giggling , chubby girl named Elinor . This tough , thuggish girl who had just moved to Long Island from a tough part of Brooklyn knew ...
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Fatigue Artist
We could offer character-forming baths for children of the local landed gentry." The matter of the water being connected to the house confused me. I hadn't thought of where it might be coming from. Didn't water in the country come from ...
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Leaving Brooklyn
... and Hardy's drugstore; the lighted marquee of the Carroll Theatre announcing, through the falling snow, this week's movie. I couldn't read the title, ... In the deep distance, splatters of red and green alternated on wavy poles.
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Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
Even more, I wanted to head back so that our landlord would turn the motor on again and we'd no longer be rocked by the rippling Mediterranean. But I wasn't really too seasick, far less seasick than one of the other passengers, ...
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Face To Face: A Reader in the World
conditions , and did not think I'd be among the ones who endured . I was too hot - tempered and impatient , I would anger a surly guard , who would shoot me . Now I am no longer so hottempered , and when I imagine myself there , I think ...
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This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses
In this her twenty–fourth book, Schwartz remains, as was said of her by Frederick Busch, "precise and unflinching." she is a writer of elegant style and captivating honesty, about herself, those around her, and the world at large.
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The Writing on the Wall: A Novel
The winner of New York magazine’s Best Literary Fiction award in 2005, this novel evocatively represents the forms of grief in the wake of major trauma.
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The Fatigue Artist
The Fatigue Artist
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Disturbances in the Field: A Novel
“A more-than-welcome return to a classic idea of the novel . . . A wonder to read” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). The field is all around us. It’s our needs and our wants. This is what George tells Lydia.
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Balancing Acts: A Novel
Without family to fall back on, Max is forced to leave his beloved Manhattan for a rest home in Westchester. He fears it will be the end of him—but in this stirring novel, retirement means a new beginning.
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Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays about Translation
In the essay “On Translating and Being Translated,” Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator.
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Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.
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Truthtelling: Stories, Fables, Glimpses
In these stories and others, including an O. Henry Award winner and a Best American Short Stories selection, National Book Award finalist Lynne Sharon Schwartz presents readers with a cast of indefatigable New Yorkers whose long-established ...
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The Four Questions
The answers are no less than the story of a people bound in slavery, their suffering in a foreign land, and their ultimate liberation – the story of Passover.
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Balancing Acts
Balancing Acts
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Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
... Not only why didn't I enjoy it , but why did I go if I didn't really want to ? As I began setting down some thoughts , what emerged was a kind of attack on travel , the idea as well as the practice . An anti- travel ... NOT NOW , VOYAGER.