Not Now, Voyager

A Memoir

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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Counterpoint
13 April 2010

Travel writing

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 Beach, where she confronts the powerful sensation of not belonging; she goes to Rome as a young woman and ponders the difference between ignorance and innocence; she ventures to Jamaica and witnesses political and social unrest; and she takes a family road trip to Montreal and watches her daughters come to startling realizations of their own.

Schwartz's personal history takes on new shapes, and her feelings about travel change as she shows us who she started out as and who she has become. Above all, this memoir exemplifies a mode of travel in and of itself- the mind on a journey or quest, pausing here and there, sometimes by design, sometimes by serendipity, lingering, occasionally backtracking, but always on the move.

By: Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 214g
ISBN: 9781582435886
ISBN 10: 158243588X
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 13 April 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

"""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"