{"product_id":"about-schmidt","title":"Louis Begley: About Schmidt [2003] paperback","description":"Proud, conservative and emotionally uptight, Albert Schmidt is a lawyer of the old school. Now, after years of careful management, his life is slowly unraveling. His beloved wife has recently died. He stumbles-?or was he pushed?into early retirement. And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of, for reasons he cannot admit. His feeling that there must be more to life than the accumulation of money is brought sharply into focus by a passionate, erotic encounter with a local waitress.     Set in Manhattan and Long Island, About Schmidt is a dark satire on the power of wealth to suffocate human creativity and the emotions.","brand":"Begley, Louis","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47668416446803,"sku":"9781852428433","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47451302101331,"sku":"XG81852428433","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/about-schmidt","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}