Description
About the Author
Steven Schwartz is the author of the novels "Therapy" and "A Good Doctor's Son" and four collections of stories. His fiction has received the Colorado Book Award, the Nelson Algren Award, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, and two O. Henry Prize Story Awards. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. stevenschwartzbooks.com.
Reviews
"What can we give up to save that which we cherish most? This is one of the questions posed by this absolutely gripping novel of a family on the verge of breaking apart. The characters here are as vivid and real as people we know in life . . . and just as captivating and mysterious. I was enthralled." -- Ann Packer, author of The Dive From Clausen's Pier
"We need more novels like The Tenderest of Strings , realistic but sympathetic depictions of ordinary men, women, and children trying to get through their days and nights with their dignity intact. Because Steven Schwartz's characters are people we are sure to care about, we're likely to turn this novel's pages as quickly as we would a thriller. But in The Tenderest of Strings we read to learn how the mysteries of the human heart will be resolved. This is a remarkable novel, wise, well-written, and evocative." -- Larry Watson, author of Let Him Go
"Fast-paced, unpredictable, and thoroughly absorbing, this is a beautiful and touching story of an American family, who, in a fractured, confusing world, try to remember how to be loyal, and how to love." -- Ann Cummins, author of Yellow Cake
"The acuity of Schwartz's gaze is matched only by the enormity and suppleness of his writerly heart. He is a maestro of the humane, a brilliant chronicler of the many barely forgivable ways we approach and avoid the mirror of our essential selves. The Tenderest Strings is at once a superbly compelling page-turner and a subtle, complex investigationmake that celebrationof the ties that bind." -- Robert Cohen, author of Amateur Barbarians
"The smooth writing and quick pace will appeal to readers of Jessica Strawser and Jodi Picoult." -- Carri Dubiel, reviewer for Booklist
Book Information
ISBN 9781646032211
Author Steven Schwartz
Format Paperback
Page Count 269
Imprint Regal House Publishing LLC
Publisher Regal House Publishing LLC
Weight(grams) 358g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm * 17mm