Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Not Now, Voyager (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 self-discovery as the author traces how travel has shaped her sensibilities from childhood through adulthood. She makes an adolescent visit to Miami Beach, where she confronts the powerful sensation of not belonging; she goes to Rome as a young woman and ponders the difference between ignorance and innocence; she ventures to Jamaica and witnesses political and social unrest; and she takes a family road trip to Montreal and watches her daughters come to startling realizations of their own. Schwartz's personal history takes on new shapes, and her feelings about travel change as she shows us who she started out as and...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781582439365
• Artikelnr.: 60858119

Autorenporträt

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a celebrated author of novels, poems, short fiction, translations from Italian, and criticism. Her short fiction has appeared in the Best American Short Stories annual anthology series several times. The author of The Writing on the Wall, Disturbances in the Field, Referred Pain, Not Now, Voyager, and TwoPart Inventions, Schwartz lives in New York City and is currently a faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.