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Smoke Over Birkenau
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Liana Millu, Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Translator)
This Holocaust memoir was translated from the Italian by the American novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz.
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Disturbances in the Field
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Lydia Rowe, whose fortunate childhood has given way to a troubled, introspective maturity, successfully reconciles the demands of husband and children with a musical career. Then tragedy strikes her family, changes her life, and challenges her famous ability to cope.
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Leaving Brooklyn
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A semi-autobiographical story of a young girl's journey from adolescence to adulthood in Brooklyn in the 1950s. Audrey, who was born almost blind in one eye, looks back on childhood events and traumas. The author's previous novels include "Rough Strife" and "Disturbances in the Field".
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Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Interweaving stories of her childhood with vivid memories of particular books, Schwartz writes of a girlhood infused with books and experiences of reading that shaped her life. This is a moving exploration of the place of books in our lives--a candid account of the links between life and reading that will inspire those of us who love books to ...
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A Place to Live: And Other Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg
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Natalia Ginzburg, Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Translator)
Natalia Ginsberg's superb essays cover such topics as her childhood in Fascist Italy, her house-hunting troubles, and a notorious Italian custody case.
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The Fatigue Artist
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In Lynne Sharon Schwartz's fifth novel, Laura is a solipsistic writer living on Manhattan's Upper West Side who is trying to overcome a chronic fatigue-like illness. In the two years since her husband's murder, she has pared her life down to taking Tai Chi classes in the park, nurturing an enthusiastic love of her bed, and ruminating about the man ...
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In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
This very New York comedy of manners takes place in an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. A psychotherapist and a caterer, their children and family and exes and lovers, struggle to balance family responsibilities with the gratification of their own needs.
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Referred Pain and Other Stories
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A book in which suppleness of phrasing and sensitivity to the subtler currents of human experience abound." - Chicago Tribune From one of our ablest chroniclers of marriage, middle age, and urban myth, a masterful collection of stories that subverts the standard domestic drama with an edgy outrageousness that mixes tragedy with black humor. In ...
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The Writing on the Wall
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As she walks across the Brooklyn Bridge on her way to work, Renata, the heroine of THE WRITING ON THE WALL, is a witness to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When they discover that one of the victims is her boyfriend's coworker, Renata and Jack provide a home for Julio, the woman's orphaned baby. The situation brings back painful ...
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Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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 illustrations. "Not Now, Voyager" takes us on a voyage of ...
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Four Questions
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ori Sherman (Illustrator)
Discover the meaning of Passover by finding the answers to The Four Questions, while observing richly colored scenes and delicate Hebrew calligraphy that joyfully extend the meaning of this venerable tradition. "A striking picture book".--Kirkus Reviews, pointered review. Full color.
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A Lynne Sharon Schwartz Reader: Selected Prose and Poetry
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A Place to Live
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Natalia Ginzburg, Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Translator)
Great contemproary Italian women writers like Elsa Morante and Natalia Ginzburg are now beginning to be known in the U.S. A Place to Live presents the singular womanist voice of Natalia Ginzburg in all its austere splendor. Known for the clarity and forthrightness of her vision, Ginzburg was not reluctant to take unpopular or controversial ...
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Face to Face: A Reader in the World
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FACE TO FACE, Lynne Sharon Schwartz's second collection of essays, covers such topics as telephone etiquette, a photographer friend, and the New York apartment where she lived for 20 years.
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Acquainted with the night, and other stories
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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The Melting Pot
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Aldabra: Or the Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare
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Silvana Gandolfi, Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Translator)
This is a sparkling tale of magic and transformation on the canals of Venice. "The way to outsmart death, Elisa dear, is to turn into something else," says Elisa's beloved grandmother. But when it seems as if Nonna might actually be changing out of human form, Elisa must uncover a series of mysteries: why is it that her mother and her grandmother ...
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The melting pot and other subversive stories
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Glimmer Train Stories, #32
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Disturbances/Field
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Field
Lydia Rowe, whose fortunate childhood has given way to a troubled, introspective maturity, successfully reconciles the demands of husband and children with a musical career. Then tragedy strikes her family, changes her life, and challenges her famous ability to cope.
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Acquainted with Night and Other Stories
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The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald
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Winfried Georg Sebald, Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Editor)
"The novelist and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz has carefully rendered these subtle currents of belief and sensibility, moving always beneath an airy conversational style, in dexterous prose."-Virginia Quarterly Review on A Place to Live and other selected essays by Natalia Ginzburg When German author W.G. Sebald died in a car accident at the ...
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Only Connect?: A Reader in the World
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FACE TO FACE, Lynne Sharon Schwartz's second collection of essays, covers such topics as telephone etiquette, a photographer friend, and the New York apartment where she lived for 20 years.
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We Are Talking about Homes: A Great University Against Its Neighbors
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In Solitary: Poems
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A well-established fiction writer turns her hand to poetry.
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