The Fatigue Artist is a refreshingly candid story about life, love, and survival in the contemporary world. A writer living in New York Cit...
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Jul 20, 2010
JoyfulK
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"Don't let anyone accuse of of malingering, [the doctor:] said.
"Little did he know how much I'd like to malinger, but I can't seem to get the hang of it. I keep shuffling to my desk to work on my book. ... tinker with a phrase here and there, until my brain short-circuits. Lights out. I sit holding the thin manuscript on my lap ... hoping it will grow from love alone." (p. 112)
As a novel, it's got some things to be desired. No particular plot, for example, More...
"Little did he know how much I'd like to malinger, but I can't seem to get the hang of it. I keep shuffling to my desk to work on my book. ... tinker with a phrase here and there, until my brain short-circuits. Lights out. I sit holding the thin manuscript on my lap ... hoping it will grow from love alone." (p. 112)
As a novel, it's got some things to be desired. No particular plot, for example, More...
Apr 08, 2009
Louise
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I can't even think of a comment to make other than "blah" and I didn't like this book at all.
From back cover:
"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 an obsessive on-again-off-again love affair with an elusive act More...
From back cover:
"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 an obsessive on-again-off-again love affair with an elusive act More...
Nov 18, 2007
Eva
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I am reading this book in my first trimester of pregnancy. At one point, a character compares chronic fatigue syndrome to my state. There are a lot of similarities, and you can consider that as having made me biased towards the book & its protagonist, although in which direction, I'm not sure.
My fundamental problem with this book is that it really never draws you into the story. It's a narrative told entirely from the point of view of Laura, a writer with chronic fatigue syndrome, an More...
My fundamental problem with this book is that it really never draws you into the story. It's a narrative told entirely from the point of view of Laura, a writer with chronic fatigue syndrome, an More...
Mar 13, 2009
Linda
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Gave me some useful insight into what Chronic Fatigue Syndrome must be like for some people.
May 14, 2011
Jann
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Reading about Laura, a forty year old woman suffering from some type of depression or chronic fatigue, I forgot I was in a book and thought she was a friend telling me her story on the phone. The prose is that REAL.
Jul 28, 2007
jo
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i love this writer; this book was like a fresh pool of water in the dusty city on a mid-august sunday afternoon.
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