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Albert Schmidt - or Schmidtie, as he prefers to be called - has reached a watershed in his life, a time when his dinner jacket and his overcoat will outlive him, and he must take stock. His much-loved wife is dead, he has retired from his job as a prestigious New York lawyer and his indulged daughter is engaged to one of his ex-colleagues. Behind the surface, darker truths emerge: Schmidtie was an unfaithful husband, a lawyer whose earning power was waning, and he can't quite bring himself to admit that he disapproves of his future son-in-law because he is Jewish. As he distastefully considers the physical, practical and emotional problems that getting older brings, he looks back nostalgically to the past, almost a golden age for him of fleeting sexual encounters, professional standing and a comfortable civilized life, a time before the changes of the modern world, where his daughter no longer eats 'proper' food, her fiance never reads a book unless it's to do with work, and smokers are treated like criminals. Louis Begley writes fluently, perceptively and with a barbed wit about a lonely man who is seemingly out of step with the world around him and who does not hide his feelings of alienation. ('It will be plain by now that bonhomie was not one of Schmidt's characteristics.') The one person he feels some connection with is Carrie, the young Puerto Rican waitress at a local restaurant. Suddenly she initiates a passionate affair and Schmidt begins to see things in a different light. Schmidt arouses our pity, and irritates and amuses us: Louis Begley has written wisely and well about a dying world and what we can do with the time we have left. (Kirkus UK)
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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.
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Albert Schmidt - or Schmidtie, as he prefers to be called - has reached a watershed in his life, a time when his dinner jacket and his overcoat will outlive him, and he must take stock. His much-loved wife is dead, he has retired from his job as a prestigious New York lawyer and his indulged daughter is engaged to one of his ex-colleagues. Behind the surface, darker truths emerge: Schmidtie was an unfaithful husband, a lawyer whose earning power was waning, and he can't quite bring himself to admit that he disapproves of his future son-in-law because he is Jewish. As he distastefully considers the physical, practical and emotional problems that getting older brings, he looks back nostalgically to the past, almost a golden age for him of fleeting sexual encounters, professional standing and a comfortable civilized life, a time before the changes of the modern world, where his daughter no longer eats 'proper' food, her fiance never reads a book unless it's to do with work, and smokers are treated like criminals. Louis Begley writes fluently, perceptively and with a barbed wit about a lonely man who is seemingly out of step with the world around him and who does not hide his feelings of alienation. ('It will be plain by now that bonhomie was not one of Schmidt's characteristics.') The one person he feels some connection with is Carrie, the young Puerto Rican waitress at a local restaurant. Suddenly she initiates a passionate affair and Schmidt begins to see things in a different light. Schmidt arouses our pity, and irritates and amuses us: Louis Begley has written wisely and well about a dying world and what we can do with the time we have left. (Kirkus UK)
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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.
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