The Three Weissmanns of Westport: A Novel |  | Author: Cathleen Schine
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 7,612
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0374299048
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374299040
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
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Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and Sensibility has moved to Westport, Connecticut, in this enchanting modern-day homage to the classic novel When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five . . . He said the words “Irreconcilable differences,” and saw real confusion in his wife’s eyes. “Irreconcilable differences?” she said. “Of course there are irreconcilable differences. What on earth does that have to do with divorce?” Thus begins The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a sparkling contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility from the always winning Cathleen Schine, who has already been crowned “a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen” by People’s Leah Rozen. In Schine’s story, sisters Miranda, an impulsive but successful literary agent, and Annie, a pragmatic library director, quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home. Dumped by her husband of nearly fifty years and then exiled from their elegant New York apartment by his mistress, Betty is forced to move to a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. Joining her are Miranda and Annie, who dutifully comes along to keep an eye on her capricious mother and sister. As the sisters mingle with the suburban aristocracy, love starts to blossom for both of them, and they find themselves struggling with the dueling demands of reason and romance.
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 I'll bring the sandwiches, you pack the thermos! July 28, 2010
A. colbert
Read it for the great warmth and amusing character studies. Loosely based upon Austen's Sense and Sensibility, an elderly mother and her two daughters are exiled from New York when their fortunes reverse, to Westport, CT, which is tenderly and comically portrayed. (One man's coveted up-suburb, is just another jaundiced manhattanite's siberia, Hah! )This is not great literature, but there is real verisimilitude in the way these three women relate to one another. Touching and hopeful in turn, the optimistic tone set by the author does its quiet job, reassuring the reader that despite myriad plot setbacks, and achingly bad behavior on the part of some of the characters, love will endure. Humor helps us navigate the chutes and ladders of even the meanest times, and is evident in abundance in this witty satire. I thought it was great fun.
 A total delight July 20, 2010
Lynne Shapiro (New Haven, CT USA)
especially for Baby Boomer women. Ms. Schine presents well-developed not stereotypical cardboard women characters and I found parts inspiring to get me out of a funk as a Boomer woman going through great changes with this recession similar to Annie's and Miranda's.
 The Weismann's of Westport July 16, 2010
Jan
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was really looking forward to reading this book....but was sadly disappointed. I found it depressing. The author seemed to repeat discriptions of the characters and that got old.
 The Three Winers of Westport is more like it July 10, 2010
Constance Moore (Washington, DC)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The characters in this book were dull winers. The plot was contrived and despite what reviews promised, this was not the least bit funny or entertaining.
A clever spin on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility July 8, 2010
Indian Prairie Public Library (Darien, IL)
Schine puts a clever spin on the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics). Instead of two young women and their mother being thrown out of their home by their brother and his greedy wife when their father dies, the sisters are middle aged and their mother loses her home when her husband of nearly fifty years decides to divorce her and marry his greedy work assistant. For those familiar with the original the popping up of each character who parallels a character in the original is a treat. But just because you have read the original, don't think you know how this one turns out.
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