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Jan 1, 2001 · 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 ...
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- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The title of her third novel, Disturbances in the Field, is psychiatric jargon—the idea, drawing on physics, being that the source of many people’s psychological problems is that “something intrudes between the expressed need on the one hand and the response of the other”—but Schwartz herself, and her protagonist, Lydia, have no investment in dogma, psychoanalytic or otherwise.
Paperback | $17.95. Published by Counterpoint. May 11, 2005 | 384 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781582433325. 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.
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Paperback
Nov 20, 2012 · About the author (2012) DIVLynne Sharon Schwartz (b. 1939) is a celebrated author of novels, poems, short fiction, and criticism. Schwartz began her career with a series of short stories before publishing her first novel, the National Book Award–nominated Rough Strife (1980). She went on to publish works of memoir, poetry, and translation.
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Open Road Media, 2012
- 1453287558, 9781453287552
- Disturbances in the Field: A Novel
The field is the entire environment that we experience. Any occurrence that changes the the equilibrium of the environment is a disturbance in the field. The field is then in disequilibrium until it achieves a new balance. This is one of the reasons that this books develops very slowly - - it describes the field and all of its elements.
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.
