num_pages: 295
description: 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 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).
language: English
title: The Three Weissmanns of Westport
publisher: Sarah Crichton Books