Shipwreck (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Ludwik Begleiter
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2000
- Setting: Paris; New York; Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; Long Island, New York; and the Greek island of Spetsai
- Principal Characters: John North, Lydia Frank North, The narrator, Léa Moroni
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, France or French people, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, New York City, Marriage, Paris, Novelists, Jews or Jewish life, Adultery, Massachusetts
- Locales: New York, Paris, France, Massachusetts, Long Island, NY, Greece
Usually authors who start their writing careers later in life are telling only one story, even if they tell it in a series of books. It is difficult enough for a writer who follows a conventional career trajectory to be animated by fresh ideas, so much more the challenge for the writer who begins at a mature age. Louis Begley, whose first book, the well-received Wartime Lies (1991) was partially based on his boyhood experiences in Holocaust-era Poland, has confounded expectations by writing a totally new book each time out. Even Schmidt Delivered (2000), a sequel to the...
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