About Schmidt - Couverture souple

Begley, Louis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852428430 ISBN 13 : 9781852428433

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 2003

Synopsis

Proud, conservative and emotionally uptight, Albert Schmidt is a lawyer of the old school. Now, after years of careful management, his life is slowly unraveling. His beloved wife has recently died. He stumbles-?or was he pushed?into early retirement. And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of, for reasons he cannot admit. His feeling that there must be more to life than the accumulation of money is brought sharply into focus by a passionate, erotic encounter with a local waitress. Set in Manhattan and Long Island, About Schmidt is a dark satire on the power of wealth to suffocate human creativity and the emotions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Begley is a senior partner at Debevoise & Plimpton,a prestigious US law firm. Wartime Lies was the winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, The 1991 Irish Times Aer Lingus International Prize, and the Prix Medicis Etranger, France's most coveted prize for fiction in translation. It was a National Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, and National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist. About Schmidt was likewise a National Book Critics' Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. Begley has received the American Academy of Letters prize for literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Serpent's Tail
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852428430
• ISBN 13: 9781852428433
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible