Disturbances in the Field: A Novel - Softcover

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582433321 ISBN 13: 9781582433325

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2005

Synopsis

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.According to Lydia Rowe’s friend George, a philosophizing psychotherapist, a "disturbance in the field" is anything that keeps us from realizing our needs. In the field of daily experiences, anything can stand in the way of our fulfillment, he explains an interrupting phone call, an unanswered cry. But over time we adjust and new needs arise. But what if there’s a disturbance you can’t get past? In this look at a girl’s, then a wife and mother’s, coming of age, Schwartz explores the questions faced by all whose visions of a harmonious existence are jolted into disarray. The result is a novel of captivating realism and lasting grace.

About this title

About the Author:

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of nineteen books, including Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), Rough Strife (nominated for the PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award). She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She lives in New York City.

Review:

"A quiet masterwork of late 20th-century American realism."

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1582433321
• ISBN 13: 9781582433325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384