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Author | : Louis Begley |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307700658 |
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Struggling to recover from Carrie the waitress's rejection and his daughter's marriage to a Jewish man, lawyer Albert Schmidt hopes for renewal when both Carrie and his daughter become pregnant and when he falls for the beautiful French widow of a former partner. By the author of Schmidt Delivered.
Author | : Louis Begley |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345530535 |
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“Tragic and redemptive . . . Updike had Rabbit, Roth has Zuckerman, Richard Ford has Bascombe and Begley has Schmidt. . . . [Schmidt Steps Back] is the most ambitious novel [yet] in the Schmidt cycle.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Full of dark humor, compassion, and heart, Schmidt Steps Back is the most romantic installment yet of the drama that began with the acclaimed About Schmidt. Now seventy-eight, and just as passionate, sharp, and endearingly prickly as ever, Albert Schmidt faces a life alone, with only the crumbs of grandfatherly status and a less-than-demanding position at an international organization to sustain him. His only hope is Alice Verplanck, the French widow of a former partner, as elusive as she is beautiful. Whether his rusty seduction skills can lure her from Paris to the Hamptons won’t be known, though, until Schmidt endures one more ordeal by fire. Hilarious, engrossing, and deeply poignant, Schmidt Steps Back is Louis Begley’s finest novel yet. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for Schmidt Steps Back “Engaging . . . Begley gets as close to Schmidt as a diarist, inhabiting this man who has been seasoned by a long life.”—The New York Times Book Review “Begley gets inside Schmidt’s fertile WASP brain . . . with subtlety, intelligence, and wit.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “The novel grows in Begley’s excellent intricacy . . . to the level of art rather than manners. . . . One cannot read one of the Schmidt novels without laughing.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Thoroughly absorbing . . . [a] cause for celebration.”—Salon “[A] superb tragicomedy . . . seductive, subversive, and commanding.”—Booklist (starred review)
Author | : Louis Begley |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307760073 |
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As he tries to make his life habitable again--after the devastating loss of his wife--retired lawyer Albert Schmidt finds the possibility of regeneration in a new love the old "Schmidtie" would never have dreamt of. Set in the Hamptons and Mahnattan, and laced with black humor, About Schmidt casts a cold, pitiless eye on the eastern seaboard upper class, the last vestiges of once-ascendant WASPs, and the newcomers whose fortunes are rising. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Louis Begley's Memories of a Marriage.
Author | : Louis Begley |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345440838 |
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In the 1996 novel, "About Schmidt", retired New York lawyer Albert Schmidt was almost down for the count after suffering personal tragedies. Now, Begley's best-loved anti-hero is triumphantly back from the brink, forming alliances with a mysterious Egyptian billionaire.
Author | : Tiffany Schmidt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802734065 |
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Mia is the quintessential high school A-lister: popular, non-exclusively dating the captain of the soccer team, extremely high GPA, everything Mia's mother has ever wanted. When you have everything good going your way, you have everything to lose. After Mia finds out she has leukemia, she feels like everything she has achieved will slip away from her. So she decides to keep her illness a secret from all her friends and her boyfriend. The only one she lets in is her lifelong best friend, Gyver-the guy next door who is poised to become so much more in her life. Mia is always looking for signs in her everyday life, to shape her decisions, and now that she's sick, she's desperate for a sign that she is going to survive.
Author | : Louis Begley |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2010-12-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307761932 |
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"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Together they endure the war, running, hiding, changing their names, forging documents to secure their temporary lives—as the insistent drum of the Nazi march moves ever closer to them and to their secret wartime lies.
Author | : Louis Begley |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-09-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804179026 |
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By the author of the beloved Schmidt series, Memories of a Marriage is a penetrating look at class and privilege, shifting from Paris to Manhattan, Long Island to Newport. Mourning his wife and daughter, and on the edge of old age, Philip reencounters an astonishing woman from his past: Lucy De Bourgh, an heiress who was once a passionate debutante and the intimate of many men, including Philip himself. As she reveals the startling details of her failed marriage to Thomas Snow—a townie turned powerful international banker, liked by many but to her a loathsome monster—Philip discovers a story that will challenge his assumptions about those he has known, admired, and desired. A triumph by an author expert in revealing the good breeding and bad behavior of the moneyed elite, Memories of a Marriage is an eloquent and irresistible book that explores all the varieties of love and the very concept of truth. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for Memories of a Marriage “Among contemporary novelists, [Begley] may be the wryest, most devastating critic of class in American society.”—The Washington Post “Engrossing . . . Louis Begley gives us a chance to see into . . . the most private recesses of another couple’s marriage.”—The New York Times Book Review “This delicious, dazzling novel about the rise and fall of a great American debutante kept me up all night.”—Susan Cheever “A consummately constructed monument to human imperfection.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[Begley is] an elegant stylist with a dry wit and a merciless eye.”—The Wall Street Journal “A fiendishly clever, Fitzgeraldesque tale about marriage, friendship, gossip, and self-justification.”—Booklist
Author | : Amy Schmidt |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101935111 |
Download Back to Dog-Gone School Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dog lovers and kids anxious about going back to school will be delighted by this photographic Step 2 reader with school-themed poems! From the bus stop to the last bell, the school day is covered. The easy-to-read poems were chosen and adapted from the delightful hardcover picture books Loose Leashes and Dog-Gone School, by husband-and-wife team Ron and Amy Schmidt. Plus there are a few new poems and photos, too! Which dog is your favorite? Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories, for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.
Author | : Gary D. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547612133 |
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In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Author | : Sarah Schmidt |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 080218913X |
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“One of America’s most notorious murder cases inspires this feverish debut” novel that goes inside the mind of Lizzie Borden (The Guardian). On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to her maid: Someone’s killed Father. The brutal ax-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, leaves little evidence and many unanswered questions. In this riveting debut novel, Sarah Schmidt reimagines the day of the infamous murders as an intimate story of a family devoid of love. While neighbors struggle to understand why anyone would want to harm the respected Bordens, those close to the family have a different tale to tell―of a father with an explosive temper, a spiteful stepmother, and two spinster sisters desperate for their independence. As the police search for clues, Lizzie’s memories of that morning flash in scattered fragments. Had she been in the barn or the pear arbor to escape the stifling heat of the house? When did she last speak to her stepmother? Were they really gone and would everything be better now? Shifting among the perspectives of the unreliable Lizzie, her older sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, and the enigmatic stranger Benjamin, the events of that fateful day are slowly revealed through a high-wire feat of storytelling.