Schmidt Steps Back
By Louis Begley
By Louis Begley
By Louis Begley
By Louis Begley
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
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Paperback $15.00
May 21, 2013 | ISBN 9780345530530
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Praise
“Engaging . . . Begley gets as close to Schmidt as a diarist, inhabiting this man who has been seasoned by a long life.”—The New York Times Book Review
“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)
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