The Three Weissmanns of Westport

By Martin Von Cochem

Book Overview

A New York Times Best Seller
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

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 The Three Weissmanns of Westport "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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031268052X
• ISBN13: 9780312680527
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Picador
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"