New Life of Hugo Gardner
A Novel
$44.46
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
17 March 2020
Summary
Beloved author Louis Begley returns to the monied halls of the Upper East Side with a sharp new comedy of manners. Divorced after decades of comfortable marriage, retired journalist Hugo Gardner sets out to explore paths not travelled.
After four decades of what he believes to be a happy, healthy partnership, Hugo Gardner’s world is overturned when he learns that his wife, Valerie, is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger, more vital man. Hugo, an octogenarian p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385545624 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385545622 |
| Author: | Louis Begley |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 143mm |
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Critics Review
“Wily and adept … With discerning, amusing, and cutting commentary on everything from food and wine to politics, sex, and the right to die with dignity, Begley seduces and provokes with fiercely urbane wit.”—Booklist“Begley turns in a spry, unerringly smooth performance … A sharply amusing novel in which an octogenarian pundit rediscovers his past.”—Kirkus
About The Author
Louis Begley
Louis Begley’s novels include Memories of a Marriage, Schmidt Steps Back, Matters of Honor, Shipwreck, Schmidt Delivered, Mistler’s Exit, About Schmidt, As Max Saw It, The Man Who Was Late, and Wartime Lies, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. His latest novel, Kill and be Killed, was published in 2016. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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