3/18/2024 0 Comments Steven schwartz md virginia![]() A man steals her wallet when she is napping, and then she meets a kind man in a bar and has to decide whether to take advantage of the in-between state her life has fallen into.ģ. Stranger - 17 pp - A wife and mother is waiting in the Philadelphia airport for a flight home to Denver, after her father died. ![]() Trouble ensues after the young man kills a deer out of season, presumably to feed his family.Ģ. He's leading a quiet life, still pining for his ex-wife, when he lets a hippie-ish young couple expecting a baby stay in a cabin on his land. Bless Everybody - 21 pp - A powerful and dramatic story about a retiree living on a large piece of property on the Colorado/Wyoming border. ![]() Schwartz is an author who makes you respect and have total compassion for his characters, even as he's revealing all of their warts.ġ. To play the simple game of finding one word that characterizes Schwartz's writing, it's dignity - all the characters in these pieces have it, even when they are behaving badly. Just two examples - a man reunites with the cousin he had a crush on as a teenager after she's had a sex-change operation ("Seeing Miles") a teacher pulls out a gun in front of his class and points it at his head ("Indie"). His premises are also always bold and fascinating. While I get totally immersed in his stories, there are times when you just have to stop amd marvel at how good he is at everything - description, dialogue, metaphors, character development and plotting. ![]() But it's rare to find a writer who excels at every aspect of writing. Many better known writers are famous for their talent with a particular facet of writing, such as dialogue or description. But over the past decade-plus, his writing has only been in appearing in literary magazines, and while I have been able to catch a few along the way, I was excited to learn he had another collection. That was published after 2 fantastic story collections, and then another novel came out a few years later. I have been following Steven Schwartz since his great 1994 novel, Therapy, which still ranks among my top 5, all-time favorite novels. ![]()
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