· “The Three Weissmanns of Westport” is richly inhabited. Schine’s characters, minor and major, have such a precisely imagined presence that Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. The three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine "Of course there are irreconcilable differences. What on earth does that have to do with divorce?" So begins The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a sparkling, and stinging, contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. The Weissmann sisters Miranda, an impulsive but. · The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine is just about a perfect book. It begins with Betty Weissman, 76, and her husband, Josie (short for Joseph) in their upper West Side apartment. It begins with Betty Weissman, 76, and her husband, Josie (short for Joseph) in their upper West Side apartment/5(K).
This is my first experience with Cathleen Schine, and it was a delightful one. The Three Weissmans of Westport takes us into the lives of three women - at probably the worse time of their lives - and allows us to journey with them through a short period of time. And off races the sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious and deeply affecting new novel by Cathleen Schine, her best yet, "The Three Weissmanns of Westport." Image Credit. The alluringly alliterative The Three Weissmanns of Westport is actually Schine's second novel set in the wealthy coastal suburb; the pink bookstore of The Love Letter () was based on her hometown's late lamented, aptly named Remarkable Book Shop. Schine's new novel opens with Austenian directness. Instead of primogeniture, divorce is.
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. “The Three Weissmanns of Westport” is richly inhabited. Schine’s characters, minor and major, have such a precisely imagined presence that they need only nod with affectionate courtesy to. Cathleen Schine is the author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review. She lives in Los Angeles.
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