{"product_id":"referred-pain-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Referred Pain: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLynne Sharon Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEveryone has a face that they show to the outside world--but our thoughts, fears, and perversions lie just beneath.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 students leads him down a twisted path of misplaced identity. Laced with Schwartz's satirical, acidly intelligent wit, \u003ci\u003eReferred Pain\u003c\/i\u003e displays the peak of her ability.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne Sharon Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is a celebrated author of novels, poems, short fiction, translations from Italian, and criticism. Her short fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e annual anthology series several times. The author of \u003ci\u003eThe Writing on the Wall, Disturbances in the Field, Referred Pain, Not Now, Voyager\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTwo-Part Inventions\u003c\/i\u003e, Schwartz lives in New York City and is currently a faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324612841709,"sku":"9781582433028","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/FD6vVd6pdZ9781582433028.webp?v=1784832635","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/referred-pain-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}