Lynne Sharon Schwartz

• May-1980
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Ivan and Caroline, a contemporary couple of shared tastes and distinctly individual interests, make their perilous passage through courtship, early marriage, child rearing, careers, affairs, and causes, maintaining their sometimes tenuous union...

• Apr-1981
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Retirement doesn’t spell the end after all, in this rousing journey through loss and rebirthMax has lived a long and fulfilling life. He and his wife were star trapeze artists and acrobats in the Brandon Brothers circus. But with her passing, h...

• Jun-1983
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz's critically beloved novel about family, tragedy, and philosophy. The field is all around us. It's our needs and our wants. This is what George tells Lydia. A disturbance, however, is something that keeps us from grasping and...

• Aug-1984
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• Sep-1987
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• Jan-1989
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A dynamic collection of stories that portrays different generations and explores various genres with compassion and dry wit In The Melting Pot , nothing is ever what it seems. In these short stories from critically acclaimed author Lynne Sharon S...

• Aug-1990
• / General Fiction
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An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to s...

• Oct-1992
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• Jun-1995
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The Fatigue Artist is a refreshingly candid story about life, love, and survival in the contemporary world. A writer living in New York City, Laura is overwhelmed by a mysterious lethargy and retreats to her bed where she reflects on the loves and lo...

• Oct-1999
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Roy, a psychotherapist, and his first wife, Bea, a caterer, are the linchpins of an extended family dispersed throughout an apartment building on New York's Upper West Side. Around them cluster their four children with assorted friends and lovers;...

• Feb-2004
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In this collection of stories, the characters live seemingly ordinary lives, but, with attention to the nuances of language, their perversions and subversions are revealed with wit and acuity, sometimes in the surreal realm of fantasy. 30,000 first p...

• Jun-2005
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Thirty-four and decidedly independent, Renata has been known to keep her involvement with people, men in particular, to a minimum. Even her job at the library keeps her at a remove from the uncertainty of trusting other people with the stories of her...

• Oct-2005
• / General Fiction
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In this collection of stories, the characters live seemingly ordinary lives, but, with attention to the nuances of language, their perversions and subversions are revealed with wit and acuity, sometimes in the surreal realm of fantasy....

• Nov-2012
• / Literary
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A rich and diverse collection of stories detailing life in all its daily battles and yearnings Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a master of tone, deft at creating realistic settings and characters. In "Acquainted with the Night," she unleashes sixteen wi...

• Nov-2012
• / Literary
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Everyone has a face that they show to the outside world -- but our thoughts, fears, and perversions lie just beneath “Referred pain” describes the sensation of pain, not at the actual point of injury, but somewhere else in the body. This disor...

• Nov-2012
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Two�"Part Inventions begins when Suzanne, a concert pianist, dies suddenly of a stroke in the New York City apartment she shares with her producer husband Philip. Rather than mourn in peace, Philip becomes deeply paranoid: their life is based on a f...

• Jan-2018
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In Joyce Carol Oates’s story “The Translation,” a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis’s “French Lesson I: Le Meurtre,” what begins as a lesson in beginn...

• Jun-2018
• / Action Adventure
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From one of Italy's favorite authors of young adult literature comes a gripping, true-to-life thriller of a Sicilian boy's fight to survive after his family is torn apart by the Mafia.A talented young runner, Santino lives in Palermo, Sicily--a beaut...

• Oct-2020
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“A grab bag of realist and experimental stories, each one a treasure . . . Wise, wry, and witty -- theses stories in all their stylistic variations are perfect.” -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review   A man generously lends his ...