Recently widowed, Albert Schmidt has triumphantly rediscovered domestic bliss in the Hamptons with Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress who is younger than his daughter. Schmidt is content with keeping h
A self-made New Yorker well into his middle age, Thomas Mistler has long been a lion of Madison Avenue's powerful advertising world. Now, poised to sell his company for a luxurious sum, Mistler receiv
Fleeing the collapse of his first marriage, Max becomes a summer-house guest on Lake Como and meets two men who will shape his life--Charlie, a famous architect and Toby, his startlingly beautiful mal
"Begley writes with a contemplative wisdom that permeates his work....[He] has captured some of the wispy melancholy of midcentury fiction, and this feat in itself is mellifluous to both ear and spiri
"Reconnecting with a vibrant woman from his past who shared a seemingly charmed marriage with a Harvard graduate, Philip is shocked to learn that the marriage ended in divorce and tragedy and that the
Master stylist Begley continues the story of Jack Dana, the former Marine Corps officer turned novelist whose quest to avenge his murdered uncle takes a new, more dangerous turn.The man who brutally m
When we last saw Albert Schmidt Esq. (“Schmidtie” to all near and dear), he had been expelled from paradise: his love Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress forty years his junior, had taken up with a blon
"Jack Dana is a star history student at Yale with a bright career in academia ahead of him. But after 9/11 he feels it is his duty to change course. As a Marine infantry officer he is deployed in Iraq
Reconnecting with a vibrant woman from his past who shared a seemingly charmed marriage with a Harvard graduate, Philip is shocked to learn that the marriage ended in divorce and tragedy and that the
