The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Language: English
Contemporary Women Domestic fiction Family Life Fiction Fiction & Literature Fiction - General General General & Literary Fiction Literary Love stories Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Mothers and daughters Single women Sisters Westport (Conn.) Westport (N.Y.)
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Published: Feb 15, 2010
Description:
A New York Times Best Seller
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband's mistress, she and her two middle-aged daughters, Miranda and Annie, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. In Schine's playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, the impulsive sister is Miranda, a literary agent entangled in a series of scandals, and the more pragmatic sister is Annie, a library director, who feels compelled to move in and watch over her capricious mother and sister. Schine's witty, wonderful novel *The Three Weissmanns of Westport "*is simply full of pleasure: the pleasure of reading, the pleasure of Austen, and the pleasure that the characters so rightly and humorously pursue….An absolute triumph" ( The Cleveland Plain Dealer).