About Schmidt by Louis Begley [FIRST EDITION / 1996]

About Schmidt by Louis Begley 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1996] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket.  Like new w/ some extremely minor shelf wear.

As he tries to make his life habitable again--after the devastating loss of his wife--retired lawyer Albert Schmidt finds the possibility of regeneration in a new love the old "Schmidtie" would never have dreamt of. Set in the Hamptons and Manhattan, and laced with black humor, About Schmidt casts a cold, pitiless eye on the eastern seaboard upper class, the last vestiges of once-ascendant WASPs, and the newcomers whose fortunes are rising.