# Schmidt Steps Back

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- Book: [Schmidt Steps Back](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-begley/schmidt-steps-back) ([Schmidt Steps Back.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-begley/schmidt-steps-back.md))
- Authors: [Louis Begley](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-begley)
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 978-03-4553-053-0
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2013-05-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Tragic and redemptive . . . Updike had Rabbit, Roth has Zuckerman, Richard Ford has Bascombe and Begley has Schmidt. . . . [Schmidt Steps Back] is the most ambitious novel [yet] in the Schmidt...