The Three Weissmanns of Westport: A Novel
<p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Best Seller<br />A<i> New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice</b><br /><br />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 <i>Sense and Sensibility</i>, 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<i> The Three Weissmanns of Westport "</i>is simply full of <i>pleasure</i>: the pleasure of reading, the pleasure of Austen, and the pleasure that the characters so rightly and humorously pursue….An absolute triumph" (<i>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>).</p>