Word: schwamm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm ·Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee ·Short Stories, Irwin Shaw ·Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ·The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever ·The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm∙Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee∙Short Stories, Irwin Shaw∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever∙The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm ∙Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee ∙Secret Isaac, Jerome Charyn ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever ∙The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
...student a kind of Beatrice to his Dante. Although she is happily married, Natalie is immediately attracted to her professor's radiance of mind. He pursues her, she capitulates only too willingly, and they begin a year-long series of passionate, clandestine meetings. In her first novel, Ellen Schwamm takes this conventional plot and Manhattan milieu and creates a fresh and elegant narrative...
...Even her passion has poise," Schwamm writes of Natalie. The same may be said of Schwamm's minor-key prose, remarkably suited to evoking those "moments of clear, bright, sufficient joy" that elevate life and redeem grief...