Face to Face
A Reader in the World
Published on 20. November 2012
212 pages
978-1-4532-8758-3 (ISBN)
Description
With a reader's perspective and a master writer's skill, critically acclaimed novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz takes on the world at large Communication, while essential, is almost impossible to maintain perfectly--a truism Lynne Sharon Schwartz demonstrates in this stunning essay collection. In one section, she discovers that one typo could completely derail a project while translating an Italian account of the Holocaust. In another essay, she deconstructs our dependence on the telephone. Most movingly, she details the ways that friendship can grow in the most unlikely places, and how difficult those bonds can be to maintain. In a previous collection of essays, Ruined by Reading, Schwartz took on the world of literature, writing, and books. Now, Schwartz extends her focus while continuing to explore her subject honestly and forcefully.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Only Connect?
- Absence Makes the Heart
- On Being Taken by Tom Victor
- Found in Translation
- The Spoils of War
- Help
- Drive, She Said
- Being There
- Two Fashion Statements
- The First Dress
- Brief Encounter
- Face to Face
- Listening to Powell
- At a Certain Age
- The Page Turner
- Credits
- Copyright
