Not Now, Voyager by Lynne Sharon Schwartz - ISBN: 9781582435886
Paperback
Since Marco Polo’s explorations and Montaigne’s travels, a lively dialogue has persisted about travel’s pros and cons – its excitement, novelties, perils, and misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises serious and amusing questions. “Not Now, Voyager” takes us…

Not Now, Voyager

A Memoir

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    13 April 2010

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Summary

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 Be…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781582435886
ISBN-10:158243588X
Author:Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publisher:Counterpoint
Imprint:Counterpoint
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:13 April 2010
Weight:214g
Dimensions:209mm x 139mm
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Critics Review

“Schwartz is an elegant writer with a nimble intellect, with an incisive awareness of how human encounters shape journeys more than sightseeing itineraries do.” –The Seattle Times “As Schwartz understands, it is not the outer voyage but the inner one that matters.” –Los Angeles Times “Charmingly idiosyncratic.” –Kirkus Reviews

About The Author

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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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