Word: schwartzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: Falling in Place, Ann Beattie Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
...Gentle Occupation, Dirk Bogarde •Falling in Place, Ann Beanie •Finding a Girl in America, Andre Dubus •Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene •Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler •Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin •Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz...
...premise of Lynne Sharon Schwartz's true and useful first novel is that marriage is a form of "unconditional acceptance" and, in Caroline's professional opinion, something that "might be infinitely twisted, tugged and pushed, provided that no shapes were snapped in two, or poked with holes, or forced inside...
Readers looking to rationalize that contradiction in terms of "open marriage" will not find support in this book. Schwartz is too good a writer to build characters out of trendy rhetoric and aggressive self-pity. Her aim is to show how two people in love can reveal each other's nature over a long period of time. They were, writes the author, "hammer and chisel to each other...
This is not a gentle image. Indeed, Schwartz takes her title from Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress...