New York: Knopf, 1996. In a clear protective mylar cover. Basis of the moviestarring Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates. Albert Schimdt's wife is dead and the relationship with his only child, his daughter, had deteriorated. Schimdt opts for early retiremnet and perhaps a chance to re-invigorate his life. A touch of sunning to edge of top board, small nick to top edge of front flap.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

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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: Nothing Like A Good Book (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1002427
Title: About Schmidt: A Novel
Author: Begley, Louis
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10: 0679450335
ISBN 13: 9780679450337
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: FATHERS DAUGHTERS FICTION NEW YORK
Bookseller catalogs: Literature; Books Into Film; Author B;

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