num_pages: 275
description: Proud, traditional, and impeccably organized, Albert Schmidt is a button-down lawyer of the old school.  But now, after years of carefulmanagement, his life is slowly unraveling.  His beloved wife has recently died.  He stumbles--or is he being pushed?--into earlyretirement.  And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of, for reasons he can scarcely admit, even to himself.  As Schmidt gropes for resolutions, he finds unexpected hope in an intense passion that comes out of the blue.Set in the Hamptons and Manhattan, infused with black humor and startling eroticism, About Schmidt is both a meditation on lonelinessand on the power of romance to unlock the most impenetrable recesses of the heart.
language: English
title: About Schmidt
titlecomplete: About Schmidt (Schmidt, #1)
genres: Fiction, American, Roman, Drama, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 834
series: Schmidt
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books