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About Schmidt
by Begley, Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0679450335
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450337
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: New York: Knopf, 1996, 1996. Hb. VG/VG. 274pp. Light wear, remainder dot top-edge, DJ: wear extremities, rubbing.. Hb. VG/VG.
Synopsis
Louis Begley is the author of four novels. Wartime Lies , which was written when he was in his mid-fifties, was followed by The Man Who Was Late, As Max Saw It , and About Schmidt . He is currently finishing a fifth novel. Begley has another life, that of a lawyer. He is a senior partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, one of America's most prestigious firms, and is the head of its international practice. Wartime Lies was the winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, The 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 and numerous other awards. Begley was born in Stryj, a town that was Polish and is now part of Ukraine, in 1933. Being Jewish, he survived the German occupation by pretending, with the help of false identification papers, to be a Catholic Pole. Begley and his parents left Poland in 1946 and settled in New York in 1947. Begley graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and after having served in the U.S. army, from Harvard Law School in 1959. Since 1974, Begley has been married to Anka Muhlstein, a prize-winning French author of biographies and other historical works. The combined family includes five grown children. His are a painter and sculptor, a book critic, and an art historian. Hers are a foreign relations specialist and a television journalist.
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- Bookseller
- Priceless Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040263
- Title
- About Schmidt
- Author
- Begley, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- ISBN 10
- 0679450335
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450337
- Publisher
- New York: Knopf, 1996
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- FICTION 0-679-45033-5
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