The three Weissmanns of Westport
Record details
- ISBN: 0374299048 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780374299040 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
292 p. ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Sarah Crichton Books." |
Summary, etc.: | Betty Weissman loses her elegant New York apartment when her husband of nearly fifty years divorces her for what he says are irreconcilable differences, but is inactuality another woman. She and her two grown daughters who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home and whose own lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion regroup in a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. As they wrestle with economic hard times, love starts to blossom for both sisters, and they find themselves struggling with the dueling demands of reason and romance. |
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Subject: | Westport (Conn.) Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Single women Fiction Sisters Fiction |
Genre: | Love stories. Domestic fiction. |
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- 55 of 56 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
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- 0 current holds with 56 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | F SCH (Text) | 33625112566786 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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The Three Weissmanns of Westport
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Summary
The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Jane Austen's beloved Sense and Sensibility has moved to Westport, Connecticut, in this enchanting modern-day homage to the classic novel When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five . . . He said the words "Irreconcilable differences," and saw real confusion in his wife's eyes. "Irreconcilable differences?" she said. "Of course there are irreconcilable differences. What on earth does that have to do with divorce?" Thus begins The Three Weissmanns of Westport , a sparkling contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility from the always winning Cathleen Schine, who has already been crowned "a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen" by People 's Leah Rozen. In Schine's story, sisters Miranda, an impulsive but successful literary agent, and Annie, a pragmatic library director, quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home. Dumped by her husband of nearly fifty years and then exiled from their elegant New York apartment by his mistress, Betty is forced to move to a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. Joining her are Miranda and Annie, who dutifully comes along to keep an eye on her capricious motherand sister. As the sisters mingle with the suburban aristocracy, love starts to blossom for both of them, and they find themselves struggling with the dueling demands of reason and romance.