Referred Pain
And Other Stories
Everyone has a face that they show to the outside world?but our thoughts, fears, and perversions lie just beneath.?Referred pain? describes the sensation of pain, not at the actual point of injury, but somewhere else in the body. This disorientation of the senses is felt, in one way or another, by many of the characters in this collection from Lynne Sharon Schwartz, one of America's foremost chroniclers of contemporary life.In the title novella, a son of Holocaust survivors circumvents his discomfort over his parents' history through a Kafkaesque series of dental procedures. In another story, a professor's sexual attraction to one of his stud…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-58243-302-8
- EAN: 9781582433028
- Produktnummer: 36811592
- Verlag: Catapult
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 404 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 404
Über den Autor
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 Two?Part Inventions, Schwartz lives in New York City and is currently a faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.
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