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32 produkter
Emergence of Memory
Conversations with W.G. Sebald
Av W. G. Sebald, W G Sebald m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
182 kr
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Ruined By Reading
A Life in Books
E-bok, 2001
255 kr
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A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 ''Without books how could I have become myself?'' 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. From …
See You in the Dark
Poems
Häftad, 2012
206 kr
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz takes a profound delight in poetic forms, appropriating the sonnet, the prose poem, and the envoi. She brings an easygoing musicality to her work, which ranges from parodic translations of Verlaine to instructions for making the perfect soup to a meditation on an Ecstasy trip.
No Way Out but Through
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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"One marvels at the force of seeing in Schwartz's No Way Out But Through and cannot help but feel a particular gratitude for her abundant humor. Go all in with these poems; you'll reap unknown rewards. She possesses a quick-witted imagination that sanctifies memories and makes room for the wondrous …
Fatigue Artist
E-bok, 2011
213 kr
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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 losses of her recent past and seeks the cure to her …
Rough Strife
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
148 kr
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The arithmetic of marriage is never easy to understand—as time passes, the variables constantly changeCaroline is set adrift in 1950s Rome when she meets Ivan. Though things start slowly, Ivan wins her over after a strong pursuit, and the two marry, agreeing never to inflict any "irreparable …
Balancing Acts
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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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, he''s left alone in New York, and suffers a heart …
Disturbances in the Field
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
166 kr
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"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. A disturbance, however, is something that keeps us from grasping and attaining the things …
Acquainted with the Night
Stories
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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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 wickedly smart, wholly believable short stories. In the …
Melting Pot
Stories
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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A dynamic collection of stories that portrays different generations and explores various genres with compassion and dry witIn The Melting Pot, nothing is ever what it seems. In these short stories from critically acclaimed author Lynne Sharon Schwartz, characters grapple with the desires and needs …
Face to Face
A Reader in the World
E-bok, 2012
32 kr
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With a reader's perspective and a master writer's skill, critically acclaimed novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz takes on the world at largeCommunication, while essential, is almost impossible to maintain perfectly a truism Lynne Sharon Schwartz demonstrates in this stunning essay collection. In one …
Referred Pain
Stories
E-bok, 2012
33 kr
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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 disorientation of the senses is felt, in one way or another, by …
Writing on the Wall
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
246 kr
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The emotionally realistic and elegant portrait of mourning in the days and months following 9/11As Renata, a linguist for the New York City Public Library, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge on her way to work one morning, she looks up to see a flash of orange and blue. Two planes have hit the World Trade …
Truthtelling
Stories, Fables, Glimpses
E-bok, 2020
165 kr
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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 car to his ex-wife, and is bewildered when she not only neglects to return it but …
Writing on the Wall
A Novel
Av Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Häftad, 2006
195 kr
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Referred Pain
And Other Stories
Av Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Häftad, 2005
197 kr
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Not Now, Voyager
A Memoir
E-bok, 2009
161 kr
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Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises both serious and amusing questions about travel, using her own experiences as vivid …
Emergence of Memory
Conversations with W.G. Sebald
Av W.G. Sebald, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
E-bok, 2011
204 kr
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When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz …
Crossing Borders
Stories and Essays about Translation
Av Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Inbunden, 2018
294 kr
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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 beginner’s French takes a sinister turn. In the essay “On …
Crossing Borders
Stories and Essays about Translation
E-bok, 2018
270 kr
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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 beginner’s French takes a sinister turn. In the essay “On …
Crossing Borders
Stories and Essays About Translation
Av Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Inbunden, 2019
163 kr
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Two-Part Inventions
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
185 kr
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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 fraud and the acclaimed music the couple created is …
My Life at the Wheel
Toward a Memoir
Häftad, 2025
190 kr
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In this collection of impeccably written essays, Schwartz tells us early on that she never thought of her life as a “continuous line” but rather a series of intertwined interrupted experiences.Hers is a life that has been bumped, tumbled, and smoothed by an endless stream of travel, fascinating …
