The Fatigue Artist (edition 1995)

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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Title:	The Fatigue Artist
Authors:	Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Info:	Scribner (1995), Edition: 1ST, Hardcover, 320 pages
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The Fatigue Artist is a refreshingly candid story about life, love, and survival in the contemporary world. A writer living in New York City, Laura is overwhelmed by a mysterious lethargy and retreats to her bed where she reflects on the loves and losses of her recent past and seeks the cure to her perplexing tiredness.

Fortified by the Eastern teachings of her Tai Chi instructor and the nurturing attentions of friends and a acupuncturist, Laura crawls out of her somnambulism with intelligent determination in search of peace and resurrection. The Fatigue Artist is both a moving chronicle of a woman's search for meaning and a wry depiction of modern urban life.

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A woman turns to alternative medicine to overcome chronic fatigue. She is Laura, 40, a recently widowed writer, felled by the New York rat race. Unable to find a cure through Western medicine, she takes up tai chi, meditation, acupuncture, and is gradually healed. By the author of Leaving Brooklyn.… (more)

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