The Three Weissmanns of Westport

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When Joseph Weissrnann divorced his wife, he tvas seventy-eight years old and slie was seventy-five . . . He said the words "irreconcilable differences," and saw real confusion in his wife's eyes. "Irreconcilable differences?" she said. "Of conrse there are irreconcilable differences. Whal on earth does that have to do with divorce?" C» I hus begins the newest and quite posJL sibly the most delightful of Cathleen Schine's novels. Which is saying a lot, as devoted fans of The Love Letter, Rameau's Niece, and other enchanting books by Schine can attest. The three Weissmanns of Westport are, specifically, Betty Weissrnann, who has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years, and her two grown daughters, Miranda and Annié, who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home. When Betty is exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband's mistress, the three women-whose lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion-regroup in a... Tovább

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When Joseph Weissrnann divorced his wife, he tvas seventy-eight years old and slie was seventy-five . . . He said the words "irreconcilable differences," and saw real confusion in his wife's eyes. "Irreconcilable differences?" she said. "Of conrse there are irreconcilable differences. Whal on earth does that have to do with divorce?" C» I hus begins the newest and quite posJL sibly the most delightful of Cathleen Schine's novels. Which is saying a lot, as devoted fans of The Love Letter, Rameau's Niece, and other enchanting books by Schine can attest. The three Weissmanns of Westport are, specifically, Betty Weissrnann, who has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years, and her two grown daughters, Miranda and Annié, who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home. When Betty is exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband's mistress, the three women-whose lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion-regroup in a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage owned by Betty's wealthy and generous Cousin Lou. The növel is a playful, devoted, loose-jointed homage to Jane Austen's beloved Sense and Sensibility, and in Schine's comic yet poignant retelling, the impulsive sister is Miranda, a literary agent who finds herself entangled in a series of scandals, and the more pragmatic sister is Annié, a library director, who feels compelled to move in with and keep an eye on her capricious mother and sister. As they mingle with the suburban aristocracy and wrestle with economic Vissza