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  • Wartime Lies

    A Novel

    by Louis Begley ...
    "Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."THE WALL STREET JOURNALAs the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Together they endure the war, running, hiding, changing their ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • About Schmidt

    A Novel

    by Louis Begley ...
    As he tries to make his life habitable again--after the devastating loss of his wife--retired lawyer Albert Schmidt finds the possibility of regeneration in a new love the old "Schmidtie" would never have dreamt of. Set in the Hamptons and Mahnattan, and laced with black humor, About Schmidt casts a cold, pitiless eye on the eastern seaboard upper class, the last vestiges of once-ascendant WASPs, ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Killer, Come Hither

    A Novel

    by Louis Begley ...
    Series Book 1 - Jack Dana
    A taut thriller that takes readers from the office suites of Manhattan to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough-and-tumble western plains of Brazil.“Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher should enjoy Jack Dana’s adventures.”—Publishers WeeklyJack Dana, a star student at Yale, joins the military after 9/11—only to have sniper fire cut short his career as a Marine Corps infantry officer. While ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Killer's Choice

    A Novel

    by Louis Begley ...
    Series Book 3 - Jack Dana
    Marine-turned-novelist Jack Dana is back in Louis Begley's most intense, suspenseful, and deadly adventure yet.With the death of his nemesis, corrupt business mogul Abner Brown, retired Marine infantry officer Jack Dana thought he could finally return to his peaceful career as a novelist. And after falling hard for Heidi Krohn, the glamorous high-powered lawyer who helped avenge his best friend's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Schmidt Steps Back

    A Novel

    by Louis Begley ...
    “Tragic and redemptive . . . Updike had Rabbit, Roth has Zuckerman, Richard Ford has Bascombe and Begley has Schmidt. . . . [Schmidt Steps Back] isthe most ambitious novel [yet] in the Schmidt cycle.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Full of dark humor, compassion, and heart, Schmidt Steps Back is the most romantic installment yet of the drama that began with the acclaimed About Schmidt. Now seventy ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

    by Louis Begley ...

    $17.29 USD

  • Memories of a Marriage

    A Novel

    by Louis Begley ...
    By the author of the beloved Schmidt series, Memories of a Marriage is a penetrating look at class and privilege, shifting from Paris to Manhattan, Long Island to Newport. Mourning his wife and daughter, and on the edge of old age, Philip reencounters an astonishing woman from his past: Lucy De Bourgh, an heiress who was once a passionate debutante and the intimate of many men, including Philip ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Shipwreck

    A Novel

    by Louis Begley ...
    A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Liesand About Schmidt*.*John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and bottles of whiskey consumed in a mysterious café called L’Entre Deux Mondes, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, the one story he has never told ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Venice for Lovers

    by Louis Begley, Anka Muhlstein ...
    With an unforgettable novella and brilliant essays, a writing couple delivers "a love letter to an ancient Italian city by the sea" ( The Washington Post).Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    About Schmidt

    by Louis Begley ...
    Narrated by George Guidall ...
    Series series Warren Schmidt

    Unabridged

    8 hours 23 min

    Louis Begley's perceptive novel hums with emotional energy and shimmers with haunting images. A National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist, About Schmidt is a powerful meditation on loneliness, desire, and transformation. Old-school lawyer Albert Schmidt has spent years carefully climbing the ladder of success. But now, at what should be the pinnacle of his career, his life is in chaos. Within ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Venice for Lovers

    by Louis Begley, Anka Muhlstein ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 26 min

    Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In Venice for Lovers, the couple has fashioned an homage to the City of Water. In her essay, Muhlstein charmingly describes how becoming friends with restaurateurs has been an unsurpassed means of getting to know the city and its inhabitants—Venetians like Ernesto, whose ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Killer Come Hither

    by Louis Begley ...
    Narrated by R. C. Bray ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    From the master observer of upper-crust New York life comes a sly, pacey international thriller ranging from the suites of an elite Manahttan law firm to the tide elegance of Sag Harbor and the rought and tuble wester plains of Brazil. ... Read more

    Was $24.99 USD Now $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus