Schmidt Steps Back
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Was this the modern form of the marriage vows?
I do, Schmidt replied, I do, I will.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Louis Begley lives in New York City. His previous novels are Wartime Lies, The Man Who Was Late, As Max Saw It, About Schmidt, Mistler’s Exit, Schmidt Delivered, Shipwreck, and Matters of Honor.
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LOUIS BEGLEY
MEMORIES OF A MARRIAGE
An irresistibly entertaining novel about a man struggling to understand his friends’ seemingly charmed marriage.
In the unforgiving class system of the 1950s, Lucy de Bourgh, daughter of one of Rhode Island’s first families, marries Thomas Snow, son of a Newport garage owner. It hardly mattered that Thomas worked for a Wall Street firm—in Lucy’s eyes, he remained a “townie.” Decades later, Lucy runs into Philip, an old friend. Philip remembers Lucy as a ravishing, funny, ready-for-anything hellion. He also remembers Thomas, killed in a freak accident years after his and Lucy’s divorce, and is shocked to hear Lucy refer to Thomas as “that monster.” The enormous discrepancy between memory and reality sets Philip off on a quest to discover who Thomas and Lucy really were, and what happened in their marriage.
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