Leaving Brooklyn

Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Penguin Books, $10.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-14-013197-0

``Not as complex or inventive as Disturbances in the Field ,'' judged PW , ``this slim, nostalgic novel reincarnates, from a contemporary adult narrator's perspective, post-WW II Brooklyn, where conformity, sensible relationships and coherence wage an age-old battle against passion and creativity.'' Here silver-tongued prose compensates for wobbly plot contrivances. (Aug.)

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