Bøger af Cathleen Schine

Joseph Weissmann er 78 og hans kone Betty 75, da han meddeler hende, at han vil skilles. Betty forvises fra deres stilfulde lejlighed i New York efter 48 års ægteskab og flytter midlertidigt ind i et lille, nedslidt sommerhus i badebyen Westport.Her får hun selskab af sine to midaldrende døtre, der hver især har deres at slås med. Den impulsive Mirandas karriere som litterær agent ligger i ruiner efter en række skandaler, og den mere pragmatiske Annie har svært ved at finde sig til rette, efter børnene er fløjet fra reden, men føler sig nu forpligtet til at holde øje med sin ulykkelige mor og ustabile søster.De tre damer involveres i det lokale selskabsliv, og snart er søstrene spundet ind i en række romantiske forviklinger, der blandt andet involverer en succesfuld, men reserveret forfatter, en semipensioneret advokat, en ung håbefuld skuespiller, en godhjertet læge og et helt slæng af festglade familiemedlemmer.DE TRE WEISSMANNS FRA WESTPORT er en varm og underholdende hyldest til Jane Austens kærlighedsromaner – en veldrejet, moden og begavet fortælling om livet, kærligheden og den sande værdi af at have en familie.

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed the fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three years old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California, with her inscrutable housekeeper and her gigantic St. Bernard. Their tranquility is upended when Mamie's grandson Julian arrives from New York City. Like many a twentysomething, he has come to seek his fortune in Hollywood. But it is 2020, the global pandemic sweeps in, and Julian's short visit suddenly has no end in sight.Mamie was only eleven when the Künstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way, stunned and overwhelmed, to sunny, surreal Los Angeles, where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians, writers, and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now, faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener, Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her years in Los Angeles: her escapades with eminent émigrés like Arnold Schoenberg, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann. Oh, and Greta Garbo. While the pandemic cuts Julian off from the life he knows, Mamie's tales open up a world of lives that came before him. They reveal to him just how much the past holds of the future.

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her inscrutable housekeeper and her gigantic St. Bernard dog. Their tranquility is upended when Mamie's grandson, Julian, arrives from New York City. Like many a twenty-something, he has come to seek his fortune in Hollywood. But it is 2020, the global pandemic sweeps in, and Julian's short visit suddenly has no end in sight. Mamie was only eleven when the Künstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way, stunned and overwhelmed, to sunny, surreal Los Angeles where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians, writers and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now, faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener, Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her early years in Los Angeles: her escapades with eminent émigrés like Arnold Schoenberg, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann. Oh, and Greta Garbo. While the pandemic cuts Julian off from the life he knows, Mamie's tales open up a world of lives that came before him. They reveal to him just how much the past holds of the future.

In Cathleen Schine's comic novel To the Birdhouse, newlywed Alice Brody appears to have the perfect life. The one fly in the ointment is her mother's detestable boyfriend, Louie Scifo: champion of incredibly bad taste and a bona fide stalker. After Alice's mother cuts him loose, Louie's determination to win back her love casts Alice's whole family into disarray. So Alice embarks on a mission to rid her mother of Louie once and for all, in this rambunctious comedy of manners that is at once "dizzying, hilarious, authentic, and original" (Washington Post Book World).

An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret "twin" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, who gives up teaching kindergarten to write poetry, is drawn, instead, to the polymorphous, chameleon nature of the written and spoken word. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war, absurdly but passionately, over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition. Cathleen Schine has written a playful and joyful celebration of the interplay of language and life. A dazzling comedy of sisterly and linguistic manners, a revelation of the delights and stresses of intimacy, The Grammarians is the work of one of our great comic novelists at her very best.

Eleven-year-old Fin and his older half-sister, Lady, have just been orphaned. Fin has not seen his glamorous sister in six years, but she is now his legal guardian - and his only hope. Uprooted from his home on a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut, Fin joins Lady in her Greenwich Village apartment. With the Swinging Sixties swirling in kaleidoscope colour all around him, Fin soon learns that his free-living, free-loving sister is going to be as much his responsibility, as he is hers. Comic and romantic, joyous and moving, Fin & Lady is a spirited love story about a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional bond in increasingly troubled times. Praise for The Three Weissmanns of Westport: 'Elegant prose, pin-sharp humour, and an ending that proves satisfyingly bittersweet.' Guardian 'Intelligent and beguiling.' The Times 'Sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting.' New York Times

Sense and Sensibility moves to Westport, Connecticut, in this New York Times bestselling homage to the classic novel.

“En sprudlende, morsom, klog og dybt rørende roman.” - New York TimesJoseph Weissmann er 78 og hans kone Betty 75, da han meddeler hende, at han vil skilles. Betty forvises fra deres stilfulde lejlighed i New York efter 48 års ægteskab og flytter midlertidigt ind i et lille, nedslidt sommerhus i badebyen Westport.Her får hun selskab af sine to midaldrende døtre, der hver især har deres at slås med. Den impulsive Mirandas karriere som litterær agent ligger i ruiner efter en række skandaler, og den mere pragmatiske Annie har svært ved at finde sig til rette, efter børnene er fløjet fra reden, men føler sig nu forpligtet til at holde øje med sin ulykkelige mor og ustabile søster.De tre damer involveres i det lokale selskabsliv, og snart er søstrene spundet ind i en række romantiske forviklinger, der blandt andet involverer en succesfuld, men reserveret forfatter, en semi-pensioneret advokat, en ung håbefuld skuespiller, en godhjertet læge og et helt slæng af festglade familiemedlemmer.De tre Weissmanns fra Westport er en varm og underholdende hyldest til Jane Austens kærlighedsromaner – en veldrejet, moden og begavet fortælling om livet, kærligheden og den sande værdi af at have en familie.Copyright © Cathleen Schine 2010Published by arrangement with Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC New YorkOversat af Annelise Schønnemann fra The three Weissmanns from Westportkærlighed, skilsmisse, seperation, tilbedelse, hengivenhed, følelsesliv, forelskelse, crush, lidenskab, venskab, mor-datter forhold, single, singleliv, søskende, søster, fælleskab, søsterskab, fejring, morskab, bibliotek, kvindelighed, kvindeliv, amerika, USA, Westport