About Begley.(the novel Shipwreck)(Book Review)

From: The Nation | Date: November 17, 2003| Author: Messud, Claire | Copyright information

SHIPWRECK By Louis Begley. Knopf. 244 pp. $23.

Louis Begley is perhaps currently best known as the author of About Schmidt, the novel from which the recent acclaimed film starring Jack Nicholson was adapted. This is a somewhat misleading introduction to the novelist and his work: For starters, the film departed from the novel in placing its eponymous protagonist among the middle classes of the American Midwest, rather than in the rarefied air of Long Island's Hamptons. M...

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