Schmidt Steps Back *** ADVANCE READERS COPY***
Language: English
Published by Knopf, New York, 2012
- Softcover
- Used
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ADVANCE READERS COPY . Stated first edition. Not remaindered or library withdrawn. Clean, tight & bright. Unread. Black felt-tip number (3/4) on lower spine - probably an inventory number. Shipped padded in a box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping.
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- Title
- Schmidt Steps Back *** ADVANCE READERS COPY***
- Author
- Begley, Louis
- Publisher
- Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No jacket issued
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307700658
- ISBN 13
- 9780307700650
- Edition
- Advanced Readers Copy
- Series
- Book 3 of 3: Ballantine Reader's Circle
- Seller catalogs
- ARC, Advanced Readers Copy
The curtain rises on Schmidt Steps Back some thirteen years later: New Years Eve 2008, the dawn of the age of Obama. Schmidts affection for the young president-elect is boundless, and as he imagines a better day for his country, he dares to hope theres one for him too. It so happens Schmidtie is readying his Hamptons house for the visit of a lady from Paris: the irresistible Alice Verplanck, widow of his former law partner and surely a more appropriate prospect for a man now seventy-eight. But theres a history, and its complicated. In fact, Schmidt hasnt seen Alice since the summer of 1995, when he behaved like a brute upon discovering a betrayal of sorts and pronounced her unworthy of his unstinting love and commitment. Alice is finally ready to forgive him, but she still doubts that Schmidtie can ever be content. She demands that he think long and hard about their past, and while hes at it Schmidtie finds himself also reviewing the reversals and tragedies that have brought him to an unimagined isolation and loneliness. With no family he can claim but Carrie, now married and expecting a second child, and only two real friends lefthis college roommate Gil Blackman and the irrepressible billionaire Mike MansourSchmidt sees in Alices impending visit his last chance, before the sun sets on the Hamptons, for a life that is more than merely staying alive.
At once darkly funny and deeply poignant, Schmidt Steps Back is the most emotionally nuanced installment of the drama that began with the acclaimed About Schmidt. Here is Louis Begleys finest novel yet.
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