Proud, conservative and emotionally uptight, Albert Schmidt is a lawyer of the old school. Now, after years of careful management, his life is slowly unraveling. His beloved wife has recently died. He stumbles-?or was he pushed?into early retirement. And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of, for reasons he cannot admit. His feeling that there must be more to life than the accumulation of money is brought sharply into focus by a passionate, erotic encounter with a local waitress. Set in Manhattan and Long Island, About Schmidt is a dark satire on the power of wealth to suffocate human creativity and the emotions.
- ISBN10 1852428430
- ISBN13 9781852428433
- Publish Date 13 February 2003 (first published 8 September 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 May 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Serpent's Tail
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English