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About Schmidt is a powerful meditation on loneliness, desire, and transformation. Old-school lawyer Albert Schmidt has spent years carefully climbing the ladder of success. But now, at what should be the pinnacle of his career, his life is in chaos. Within months, he is widowed and forcibly retired from his firm. He harbors painfully mixed feelings about his ambitious daughter's impending marriage. Suddenly, in the midst of this turmoil, a seductive...
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Best-selling author Louis Begley created a beguiling icon of middle age in About Schmidt. Recently widowed, pushed into retirement by his law firm, at odds with his family, Albert Schmidt captivated readers with his cautious courage. Now he is facing ever mounting challenges of life, love, and age. Schmidt is happy living with his affectionate young girlfriend, Carrie. His grumpy daughter, on the other hand, seems to want only money from him. What...
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A PEN/Hemingway Award winner and finalist for the National Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, and National Book Critics' Circle Award, Louis Begley offers listeners the third novel starring retired lawyer Albert Schmidt. "Schmidtie" (to people who know him) is languishing alone, with only two real friends and his daughter in contact. Readying his home in the Hamptons for a visit from his estranged friend Alice, Schmidt hopes to resurrect a...
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Paulas wilde Zeiten sind vorbei. Sie ist auf Bewährung und verkauft nur noch kleine Brötchen. Als Privatdetektivin per Zufall soll die Bäckereiverkäuferin eine untreue Ehefrau überwachen. Am nächsten Tag ist die Frau jedoch tot und Paula steht im Fokus der Ermittlungen. Zu ihrer Entlastung muss sie in der Stuttgarter High Society recherchieren. Doch leider macht ihr dabei Kriminalkommissar Brändle das Leben schwer - wenn der Mann nicht auch...
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Für die Stuttgarter Privatdetektivin Paula Schmidt könnte es besser laufen. Neben ihren Geldsorgen muss sie sich auch noch mit Gefühlen für den attraktiven Kriminalkommissar Brändle herumschlagen. Da kommt ihr die alte Hirschle aus dem dritten Stock überhaupt nicht gelegen. Seit Wochen hat die Seniorin von ihrem Nachbarn, dem Privatdozenten Martin Kirner, nichts gehört oder gesehen. Paula beginnt im Umfeld Kirners zu ermitteln und wird dabei...
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