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About Schmidt by Louis Begley
A fine new novel. The great pleasure of reading Louis Begley is] his exceptional literary intelligence.The New York Times Book Review Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the complexities of society and personality with a clear eye and graceful style. Morethan meets the requirements of graceful fiction.
Time Proud, traditional, and impeccably organized, Albert Schmidt is a button-down lawyer of the old school. But now, after years of carefulmanagement, his life is slowly unraveling. His beloved wife has recently died. He stumbles--or is he being pushed?--into earlyretirement. And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of, for reasons he can scarcely admit, even to himself. As Schmidt gropes for resolutions, he finds unexpected hope in an intense passion that comes out of the blue. Set in the Hamptons and Manhattan, infused with black humor and startling eroticism, About Schmidt is both a meditation on lonelinessand on the power of romance to unlock the most impenetrable recesses of the heart. Comical, tough, unsparing; it is as if Louis Auchincloss had exchanged the kid gloves for brass knuckles. Interesting and nervy.
The Washington Post Book World A powerful story of a man's fall from grace. The Remains of the Day come s] to mind.
Publishers Weekly (starred review) Stunning.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
Kill and be Killed, Killer, Come Hither, Memories of a Marriage, About Schmidt, and Wartime Lies, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, are among Louis Begley's prior works. His work has been published in fourteen different languages. He is an American Academy of Arts and Letters member.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780449911167 |
| ISBN 10 | 0449911160 |
| Title | About Schmidt |
| Author | Louis Begley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1997-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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