9781582433325
Disturbances in the Field
Lynne Sharon Schwartz; Lynne Sharon
ISBN 13: 9781582433325
Publisher: Counterpoint
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Softcover
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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.
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"...one is forced to wonder what went wrong. Long and sprawling and utterly lacking in dramatic life, it's a would-be novel of ideas grafted onto a would-be family tragedy. It sinks like a large, misshapen stone...When Lydia isn't ruminating on her past, she spends her time pondering the restlessness of her husband Victor and the emotional detachment of her four teen-age children...The story drifts nowhere in particular, and the reader drifts blissfully asleep."
Adam Gussow, Saturday Review, 10/1983
Review:"At a time when we are continuously drenched with trash and hype that threaten to drown us, 'Disturbances in the Field' seems a more-than-welcome return to a classic idea of the novel."
Alice Adams, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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