Wartime Lies

Wartime Lies (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Louis Begley

Literary

Penguin??Books

Killer's Choice: A Novel (Jack Dana Book 3)

Nan A. Talese

<p>A man upon retirement embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.</p>

About Schmidt (DVD)

New Line Home Entertainment

Proud, traditional, and impeccably organized, Albert Schmidt is a buttoned-down lawyer of the old school. But now, after years of careful management, his life is slowly unraveling. His beloved wife has recently died. He stumbled--or is he being pushed?--into early retirement. 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 loneliness and on the power of romance to unlock the most impenetrable recesses of the heart.

About Schmidt

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Schmidt Delivered

<p>Louis Begley is the author of the best selling novel, 'About Schmidt'. Shipwreck is a suspenseful tale of a deeply flawed charachter and the desperate measures he has taken to shield his wife from the truth of his torrid affair with a French journalist. "Shipwreck is at once a classic, even Jamesian novel of character and a highly erotic, modern thriller-disturbing, mesmerizing -intensely readable and even soul-shaking". - Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Compellingly and compulsively told - catches our attention and holds it fast.' Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times</p>

Shipwreck

Albert Schmidt is a retired lawyer who misses his recently deceased wife, has an unhealthy diet, is a mild anti-Semite and owns a nice home in the Hamptons he feels compelled to offer to his daughter as a wedding present. Said daughter, Charlotte, is a yuppie in all the worst ways. She handles public relations for tobacco companies, doesn't want the house in the Hamptons, and is about to marry a buttoned-up Jewish lawyer. Schmidt, who had built a very lucrative career on his ability to be 'always demonstrably and impeccably right', begins to feel the first stirrings of self-doubt and, to his own astonishment, finds himself beginning an affair with a frank, exuberant waitress, a woman younger than his daughter. The conflict takes off from there in this finely told tale of retirement, inheritance, sex and death.

Contemporary

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Lügen in Zeiten des Krieges : Roman.;

Ludwik Begleiter

Suhrkamp

Schmidts Bewährung.

Ehrensachen

Suhrkamp Verlag KG

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