Schmidt Steps Back Contributor(s): Begley, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345530535 ISBN-13: 9780345530530 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Sagas |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.2" W x 7.98" (0.67 lbs) 400 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family - Generational Orientation - Elderly/Aged |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Tragic and redemptive . . . Updike had Rabbit, Roth has Zuckerman, Richard Ford has Bascombe and Begley has Schmidt. . . . Schmidt Steps Back] is the most ambitious novel yet] in the Schmidt cycle."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Begley gets inside Schmidt's fertile WASP brain . . . with subtlety, intelligence, and wit."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "The novel grows in Begley's excellent intricacy . . . to the level of art rather than manners. . . . One cannot read one of the Schmidt novels without laughing."--San Francisco Chronicle "Thoroughly absorbing . . . a] cause for celebration."--Salon " A] superb tragicomedy . . . seductive, subversive, and commanding."--Booklist (starred review) |