Wily and adept . . . With discerning, amusing, and cutting commentary on everything from food and wine to politics, sex, and the right to die with dignity, Begley seduces and provokes with fiercely urbane wit." Booklist
Begley turns in a spry, unerringly smooth performance . . . A sharply amusing novel in which an octogenarian pundit rediscovers his past. Kirkus
Louis Begley's novels include Memories of a Marriage, Schmidt Steps Back, Matters of Honor, Shipwreck, Schmidt Delivered, Mistler s Exit, About Schmidt, As Max Saw It, The Man Who Was Late, and Wartime Lies, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. His latest novel, Kill and be Killed, was published in 2016. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.