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100 1 $aBegley, Louis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91018358
245 10 $aAbout Schmidt /$cLouis Begley.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred Knopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c1996.
300 $a273 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aAfter years of careful management, the life of Albert Schmidt - proud, traditional gentleman and lawyer of the old school - lies about him in shambles. The wife he adored is recently dead. The clients he has served superbly and devotedly throughout his long career are turning to his firm's aggressive young comers as Schmidt stumbles into early retirement. And relations with his only child are going from bad to worse.
520 8 $aCharlotte, once the flower of all her father's hopes, and the sole beneficiary of the best of everything he could provide, has matured into a banal yuppie, only too willing to apply her peerless education to work in public relations. And now a desperate quarrel divides them: Charlotte announces her intention to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of, for reasons he can scarcely admit - even to himself.
520 8 $aAs the beleaguered father gropes his way out of the corners he is forever backing himself into, he finds the possibility of regeneration, perhaps even happiness, in a new love the old "Schmidtie" could not have imagined.
520 8 $aSet in the Hamptons and Manhattan, infused with black humor and startling eroticism, Louis Begley's fourth novel casts a cold, pitiless eye on a class once-ascendant on the eastern seaboard as it is pushed aside by those whose fortunes are rising. About Schmidt is a meditation on loneliness and on the power of romance to unlock the most impenetrable recesses of the heart; it brilliantly enlarges Begley's exploration of the tragic themes that haunt his earlier works.
650 0 $aFathers and daughters$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
650 0 $aMiddle-aged men$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
650 0 $aRetirees$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
650 0 $aLegal stories$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108377
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
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852 00 $bbar$hPS3552.E373$iA64 1996