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The Lake Shore Limited

The Lake Shore Limited

by SueMiller (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

    $4.38
Synopsis

That's what the play was about, she was thinking abruptly. The wish to imagine what life could be, how it could change, if you were unencumbered. Did everyone who was married do this from time to time, imagine an unencumbered life? Three years after the death of her younger brother Gus, Leslie still thinks about what might have been: if Gus hadn't got on that plane on September 11th, if her husband understood the nature of her grief, if she had made different choices. As she sits down to watch The Lake Shore Limited, a disquietingly autobiographical play written by Gus' former girlfriend Billy, she can't help but wonder whether she also holds on to the past, and whether she really knows Billy at all. Meanwhile, Sam, Leslie's divorced friend, finds in the play inescapable echoes of his troubled life and begins to fall for Billy's distinctive, enigmatic beauty. A powerful love story; a mesmerising tale of entanglements, connections and inconsolable losses; a marvellous reflection on the meaning of grace and the uses of sorrow, in life and in art: The Lake Shore Limited is Sue Miller at her dazzling best.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05 Jul 2010
ISBN 10: 1408807335
ISBN 13: 9781408807330
Book Overview: 'There is a certain kind of knowledge that we reach only through a certain kind of fiction: fiction so rich, so thoughtful, so absorbing that reading it is like experiencing the passage in our own lives. When we reach the end of these books we think: Yes. That is how it must have been. Sue Miller writes this sort of fiction' Los Angeles Times

Media Reviews
'I was very moved by this subtle and truthful book. Sue Miller's writing, while never showy, builds an honest, elegant world around the reader. Almost without realizing it, enjoying the specifics of the journey - Boston, the theatre, marriages, odd behaviours, great sex, pain - you are led towards a conclusion that is built by detail but, in the end, satisfyingly large-scale. Brilliant' Sadie Jones Praise for The Senator's Wife: 'An incredible story of the dangers of trying to live lives through others. Perfect book-club material' Easy Living 'Shock, deceit, desire and despair come together at once in a way that feels simply like fate ... A clever storyteller with a penchant for the unexpected' New York Times 'A complex, rich, haunting novel of marital love and its complications' Woman & Home
Author Bio
Sue Miller was born in Chicago in 1943. She is the bestselling author of eight previous novels including The Good Mother, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest and Lost in the Forest, the acclaimed memoir The Story of My Father and the Richard & Judy hit The Senator's Wife. She serves as the chair of PEN, New England. Sue Miller lives in Boston, Massachusetts.