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This Is Where We Came in: Essays
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Product Description: Award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, Lynne Sharon Schwartz returns with what is perhaps her most personal book yet. These memoirs, gathered under the title of “Intimate Glimpses,” are exactly that. Intimate recollections of her life, beginning with her serious heart-valve surgery and ranging back in time, from going to movies as a child, to her relationship with her complicated and challenging parents, her own difficulties with intimacy and anger, thoughts about long friendships, and the pure delight of grandchildren...read more
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9781619024755 | Counterpoint, December 13, 2016, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, Lynne Sharon Schwartz returns with what is perhaps her most personal book yet.

This Is Where We Came In
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Product Description: Award-winning novelist, poet and essayist, Lynne Sharon Schwartz returns with what is perhaps her most personal book yet. These memoirs, gathered under the title of “Intimacies,” are exactly that. Intimate recollections of her life, beginning with her serious heart-valve surgery and ranging back in time, to going to movies as a child, her relationship with her complicated and challenging parents, her own difficulties with intimacy and anger, thoughts about long friendships, and the pure delight of grandchildren...read more
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9781619022461, titled "This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses" | Counterpoint, March 4, 2014, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Award-winning novelist, poet and essayist, Lynne Sharon Schwartz returns with what is perhaps her most personal book yet.

Two-Part Inventions
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Product Description: 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 about to be exposed...read more
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9781619020153 | Counterpoint, November 6, 2012, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781619021938 | Counterpoint, October 29, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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.

See You in the Dark: Poems
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Product Description: An acclaimed novelist, essayist, memoirist, and translator, Lynne Sharon Schwartz has written that she began writing "before [she] knew about the strictures of literary genres: poem, story, essay." What she wrote as a child was "poetic speculation ...read more
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780810127999 | Curbstone Pr, January 30, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An acclaimed novelist, essayist, memoirist, and translator, Lynne Sharon Schwartz has written that she began writing "before [she] knew about the strictures of literary genres: poem, story, essay.

Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
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Product Description: Since Marco Polo’s explorations and Montaigne’s travels, a lively dialogue has persisted about travel’s pros and cons — its excitement, novelties, perils, and misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises serious and amusing questions...read more
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9781582434285 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2009, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel.

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9781582435886 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Since Marco Polo’s explorations and Montaigne’s travels, a lively dialogue has persisted about travel’s pros and cons — its excitement, novelties, perils, and misadventures.

Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W. G. Sebald
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By Lynne Sharon Schwartz (editor)
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9781583229156, titled "The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W. G. Sebald" | 1 edition (Seven Stories Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $15.95

The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W.G. Sebald
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Product Description: 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 offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation...read more
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz (editor)
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9781583227855 | Seven Stories Pr, November 27, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When German author W.

Leaving Brooklyn
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By Ursula Hegi (introduced by) and Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780976631149, titled "Leaving Brooklyn: A Novel" | Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, May 7, 2007, cover price $12.95

The Writing On The Wall
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In a tale of emotional survival in post-9/11 New York City, independent thirty-four-year-old Renata deals with the effects of the terrorist attacks on her personal life, in light of the trauma she has already experienced. Reprint.
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9781582432991 | Counterpoint, May 11, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In a tale of emotional survival in post-9/11 New York City, thirty-four-year-old Renata deals with the effects of the bombings on her personal life, in light of the trauma she has already experienced.

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9781582433004 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, May 16, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a tale of emotional survival in post-9/11 New York City, independent thirty-four-year-old Renata deals with the effects of the terrorist attacks on her personal life, in light of the trauma she has already experienced.

Referred Pain and Other Stories
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Product Description: "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...read more
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9781582433011, titled "Referred Pain: And Other Stories" | Counterpoint, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781582433028 | Counterpoint, October 18, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "A book in which suppleness of phrasing and sensitivity to the subtler currents of human experience abound.

Disturbances in the Field
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Product Description: As powerful now as when first published in 1983, Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s third novel established her as one of her generation’s most assured writers. In this long-awaited reissue, readers can again warm to this acutely absorbing story...read more
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780060152024 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1983, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Chamber musician Lydia Rowe's confidence and harmonious life are shattered by the accidental deaths of her two youngest children and she enters, inconsolable, a space where no one can reach her

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9781582433325 | Counterpoint, May 11, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: As powerful now as when first published in 1983, Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s third novel established her as one of her generation’s most assured writers.
9780553343779 | Reissue edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1985), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Lynne Sharon Schwartz's critically beloved novel about family, tragedy, and philosophy.

Aldabra, Or, the Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare
In Venice, Italy, ten-year-old Elisa finds she must deal with all the unexpected consequences of her beloved eccentric grandmother's transformation into a giant Aldabra tortoise, native to a small group of coral islands in the Seychelles.
By Silvana Gandolfi and Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780439497411, titled "Aldabra or the Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare" | Arthur a Levine, April 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In Venice, Italy, ten-year-old Elisa finds she must deal with all the unexpected consequences of her beloved eccentric grandmother's transformation into a giant Aldabra tortoise, native to a small group of coral islands in the Seychelles.

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9780439497442 | Arthur a Levine, April 1, 2004, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: In Venice, Italy, ten-year-old Elisa finds she must deal with all the unexpected consequences of her beloved eccentric grandmother's transformation into a giant Aldabra tortoise, native to a small group of coral islands in the Seychelles.

A Place to Live: Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg
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Product Description: Arguably one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer’s writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg’s books written over the course of Ginzburg’s lifetime was a many-years long project for Schwartz...read more
By Natalia Ginzburg and Lynne Sharon Schwartz (trans)
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9781583225707 | Seven Stories Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Arguably one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer’s writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths.

In Solitary: Poems
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Product Description: In The New York Times, Sven Birkerts wrote of Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s fiction, “she sets before us fiction’s most beautiful effect: we believe these moments to be unique; life has not been quite like this, and will never be quite like this again, ever...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9781931357036 | Sheep Meadow Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In The New York Times, Sven Birkerts wrote of Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s fiction, “she sets before us fiction’s most beautiful effect: we believe these moments to be unique; life has not been quite like this, and will never be quite like this again, ever.

A Place to Live: And Other Selected Essays
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Essays by the Italian author of The Things We Used to Say discuss her roles as a writer and a mother, her displacement during World War II, her struggles with deprivation in postwar Italy, her witness to an infant's confiscation from its adoptive parents, and her travel experiences. (view table of contents)
By Natalia Ginzburg and Lynne Sharon Schwartz (trans)
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9781583224748 | Seven Stories Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Essays by the Italian author of The Things We Used to Say discuss her roles as a writer and a mother, her displacement during World War II, her struggles with deprivation in postwar Italy, her witness to an infant's confiscation from its adoptive parents, and her travel experiences.

Face to Face: A Reader in the World
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Product Description: Following her acclaimed Ruined by Reading, Lynne Sharon Schwartz moves from the world of books to the broader world outside, tracing the solitary self as it's shaped and defined by connections large and small. These essays move through a landscape of varied encounters that blossom into self-discovery for the reader as well as the writer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780807072202 | Beacon Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: From the author of the acclaimed Ruined by Reading, a new book about making connections in our increasingly disconnected and technologically mediated world Following Ruined by Reading, Face to Face takes the author from her solitary life in books to her shared life with others —from the most marginal encounters on the street to the close relationships that sustain her.

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9780807072219 | Beacon Pr, May 11, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Following her acclaimed Ruined by Reading, Lynne Sharon Schwartz moves from the world of books to the broader world outside, tracing the solitary self as it's shaped and defined by connections large and small.

Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
The author explores the role of books and literature in our lives, interweaving the story of her own Brooklyn childhood with memories of special books and thoughts on how books have shaped her world
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780807070826 | Beacon Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author explores the role of books and literature in our lives, interweaving the story of her own Brooklyn childhood with memories of special books and thoughts on how books have shaped her world

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9780807070833 | Beacon Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The author explores the role of books and literature in our lives, interweaving the story of her own Brooklyn childhood with memories of special books and thoughts on how books have shaped her world

Miscellaneous:

9780807071007 | Beacon Pr, March 15, 2001, cover price $20.00

In the Family Way
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The hilarious tale of Roy, his first wife Bea, and their various children, family-members, and friends describes how they all try to find their way to happiness in a chaotic world. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780688177904 | Perennial, November 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The hilarious tale of Roy, his first wife Bea, and their various children, family-members, and friends describes how they all try to find their way to happiness in a chaotic world.

In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy
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The hilarious tale of Roy, his first wife Bea, and their various children, family-members, and friends describes how they all try to find their way to happiness in a chaotic world. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780688170714 | William Morrow & Co, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: Tells the story of Roy, a psychotherapist, and his first wife, Bea, a caterer, and their extended family, all living in an apartment building on New York's Upper West Side, and their struggle to redefine the idea of family, amid their social and sexual antics

Smoke over Birkenau
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Presents stories of women who lived and suffered alongside Liana Millu during months in a concentration camp, describing their struggle to overcome violence and tragedy (view table of contents)
By Liana Millu and Lynne Sharon Schwartz (trans)
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9780827603981 | Jewish Pubn Society, September 1, 1991, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Presents stories of women who lived and suffered alongside Liana Millu during months in a concentration camp, describing their struggle to overcome violence and tragedy

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9780810115699 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, February 18, 1998), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents stories of women who lived and suffered alongside Liana Millu during months in a concentration camp, describing their struggle to overcome violence and tragedy

The Fatigue Artist
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A woman who finds herself alone and suddenly beset by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome turns to an alternative healer for help
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780684824680 | Reprint edition (Scribner, July 25, 1996), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A woman who finds herself alone and suddenly beset by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome turns to an alternative healer for help

The Fatigue Artist: A Novel
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Blending comedy and grief, the author of Leaving Brooklyn returns with the saga of a woman who finds herself alone and suddenly beset by Chronic Fatigue virus and turns to an alternative healer for help. 25,000 first printing.
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780684802473 | Scribner, June 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A woman who finds herself alone and suddenly beset by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome turns to an alternative healer for help

The Four Questions
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Explores the meaning of Passover by explicating the symbolism of the Seder and the four questions
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780803706002 | Dial Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Explores the meaning of Passover by explicating the symbolism of the Seder and the four questions

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9780140552690 | Reprint edition (Puffin, February 1, 1994), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Explores the meaning of Passover by explicating the symbolism of the Seder and the four questions

Library:

9780803706019 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Explores the meaning of Passover by explicating the symbolism of the Seder and the four questions

A Lynne Sharon Schwartz Reader: Selected Prose and Poetry
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By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780874515916 | Middlebury College, November 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

Leaving Brooklyn
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Product Description: An erotic, eloquent tale that blurs the boundaries between fiction and memoir as Audrey tries to remember an affair at fifteen from the advantage of adulthood.
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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9780395510919 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The narrator looks back on her childhood and adolescence, and assesses the influence an early eye injury had on her life

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9780140131970 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1990), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: An erotic, eloquent tale that blurs the boundaries between fiction and memoir as Audrey tries to remember an affair at fifteen from the advantage of adulthood.

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