About Schmidt Author:Louis Begley 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 early retirement.??And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt ... more »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.« less
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