THE

FATIGUE ARTIST

A NOVEL

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ

《讀書毀了我》作者琳恩．莎朗．史瓦茨又一傑作。作品描寫都會作家蘿拉，當記者夫婿在一場緝毒行動中不幸身亡，卌歲的她，除了得面對喪夫之慟，以及她那藕斷絲連卻又難以捉摸的情夫，這突如其來的人生劇變，讓她罹患嗜睡症。依照蘿拉自己的說法，是「她愛上了自己的床鋪」。雖說西方醫學說得出她的症狀、找得出病因，卻無法真正治癒她的心。就在這一連串的另類療法以及漫長時間之中，逐漸康復的蘿拉，周旋於頑固卻好心的生份人、好友、情人與家人之際，得以藉由寫作重新找到生活的意義與精神慰藉。一本描繪當代都會女子心理轉折，史瓦茨深切刻劃女性莫名不安與躁鬱的心境，以及克服困難、鼓舞振作的意念。

From the acclaimed author of Leaving Brooklyn and Disturbances in the Field comes a witty, sophisticated novel that confirms Lynne Sharon Schwartz as a major voice in American fiction.

At age forty, Laura is struggling with the violent death of her reporter husband as well as her obsessive on-again-off-again love affair with an elusive actor. Suddenly, she finds herself incapacitated by a mysterious lethargy - a love affair with her bed, as she puts it. Though Western medicine can name her disease, and its cause, it can do nothing to cure her. As time and alternative methods gradually bring Laura back to health, she finds solace and meaning in writing about her encounters with often wrongheaded but well-meaning strangers, friends, lovers, and family.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz has created a haunting mosaic of a woman adrift in society: Laura's illness and recovery are a metaphor for the modern urban malaise, and for the spirit that can defeat it.

■琳恩．莎朗．史瓦茨／Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Schwartz grew up in Brooklyn, the second of three children of Jack M. Sharon, a lawyer and accountant, and Sarah Slatus Sharon; she married Harry Schwartz in 1957. She holds a BA (1959) from Barnard College, an MA (1961) from Bryn Mawr, and started work on a PhD at NYU. Schwartz has taught in many universities and writing programs, including Bryn Mawr, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently on faculty in the Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College. Lynne Sharon Schwartz lives in New York City, and has set a number of her books there as well. Though Schwartz is perhaps best known for her novels, her work spans a number of genres, from fiction to poetry to memoir, criticism, and translation from Italian.

作者：琳恩．莎朗．史瓦茨／Lynne Sharon Schwartz

版本：Reprint edition

規格：平裝／Paperback，13.3 x 20.3 x 2.1 cm，320頁

出版商：Simon & Schuster

商標：Scribner

出版日期：1996年07月14日

語言：英文

ISBN-10：0-684-82468-X

非新品，書緣微泛黃，附保護書套，不介意物品狀況再行購買。

Condition: Good, minor foxing. With dust jacket.

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