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An aristocratic Wasp, a widower who is one of New York's last white-shoe lawyers, seeks solace in the arms of a Puerto Rican waitress after his only daughter inflicts on him the ultimate indignity. She is marrying an ambitious drone, immune to the refining pleasures of culture and--perhaps hardest to swallow--Jewish. By the author of Wartime Lies
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About Schmidt, Louis Begley
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- About Schmidt
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Louis Begley
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 273
- ISBN10
- 0679450335
- ISBN13
- 9780679450337
- Series
- Schmidt
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Relationships, Filmthema, Marriage, New York, America, Weddings, Father, Daughters, Road Trip
- Original title
- About Schmidt
- Rating
- 3.2 out of 5
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- An aristocratic Wasp, a widower who is one of New York's last white-shoe lawyers, seeks solace in the arms of a Puerto Rican waitress after his only daughter inflicts on him the ultimate indignity. She is marrying an ambitious drone, immune to the refining pleasures of culture and--perhaps hardest to swallow--Jewish. By the author of Wartime Lies