Sue Miller

While I Was Gone

senator's wife

After being diagnosed at nineteen with tuberculosis in 1919, a young woman is sent to a sanitarium, where she rediscovers the pleasures of unfettered youth and falls in love with a doomed man. 200,000 first printing.

A Novel

The World Below

Monogamy

Na het zien van een toneelstuk gebaseerd op de gebeurtenissen van 9/11 denken enkele mensen terug aan hun eigen (verloren) liefdesrelaties en proberen daarover samen te praten.

De laatste voorstelling

Natalie Danford

John Kulka

This year's volume, featuring 17 new stories selected by award-winning novelist John Casey, continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers.

Best New American Voices 2007

Original publication and copyright date: 1986.

The Good Mother

A reissue of the powerful and troubling debut sensation - which spent over six months at top of the New York Times bestseller list on its original publication thirty years ago Recently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful - and sexual - for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new family - that force her to prove she is a good mother.

The ‘powerful, dramatic, readable’ New York Times bestseller

Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. Soon Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, as they both reckon with the contours and mysteries of marriage: one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. With precision and a rich vitality, Sue Miller—beloved and bestselling author of While I Was Gone—brings us a highly charged, superlative novel about marriage and forgiveness.

The Senator's Wife

Dall’autrice bestseller Sue Miller, un accattivante romanzo sulla vita di coppia in cui sono protagonisti la bugia, i segreti e il tradimento. Graham e Annie sono sposati da quasi trent’anni. Nella loro cerchia di amici e conoscenti, sono considerati una coppia d’oro. Graham è un libraio, un uomo molto socievole con grandi appetiti: curioso, desideroso di compiacere, amante della vita e del cibo, conviviale organizzatore di feste vivaci. Annie, più riservata e introspettiva, è una fotografa. Sta per inaugurare la sua prima mostra in galleria dopo una lunga pausa ed è preoccupata che i migliori anni della sua carriera possano essere ormai passati. Hanno due figli adulti: Sarah, che vive a San Francisco, e Lucas, il figlio che Graham ha avuto dalla sua prima moglie Frieda. Sebbene Frieda, discreta e amorevole, sia una presenza costante nella loro vita, Annie è consapevole di essere il più grande amore del marito. Quando Graham muore improvvisamente, Annie è perduta. Che senso ha andare avanti, si chiede, senza di lui? Poi, mentre è ancora in lutto, scopre un segreto rovinoso, che la farà precipitare nell’oscurità e la costringerà a chiedersi se ha mai conosciuto veramente l’uomo che ha amato: Graham la tradiva, e con una donna che lei conosce. Tra i migliori libri dell’anno per molte testate statunitensi, Monogamia, seducente romanzo avvolto da un velo di mistero, è un’intelligente fotografia delle relazioni amorose di lunga data e dei segreti che spesso vi si nascondono. «Un libro ricco, profondo. Alla fin fine, è la storia di un matrimonio: un romanzo alla vecchia maniera, che esplode lentamente e fa sognare i lettori». Richard Russo, «The New York Times Book Review» «Il talento di Sue Miller trasforma una trama familiare in una storia originale che riflette la complessità della vita reale nelle relazioni di lunga data. Monogamia dimostra che Miller rimane una delle migliori cartografe del territorio del matrimonio». «The Washington Post» «Un romanzo sensuale e acuto. Con umorismo e umanità, Miller evita il luogo comune della storia sulla moglie tradita e crea invece un racconto rivelatore delle complessità – e delle assurdità – dell’amore, dell’infedeltà e del dolore». «O, The Oprah Magazine» «Un romanzo basato su una prosa vibrante, personaggi rappresentati vividamente e la resilienza dell’amore eterno. Un ritorno spettacolare e potente». «Publishers Weekly»

Monogamia

'Deeply affecting ... exquisite' Washington Post 'Subtle and truthful' Sadie Jones 'Acutely observant ... heartbreaking' Daily Telegraph Ever since her boyfriend Gus was killed in 9/11, Billy has been pretending. She finds it easier to stay silent and go through the motions of grief than tell the truth: that she was planning to leave Gus, and that his death left her feeling a mixture of ambivalence and anguish that she is still struggling to resolve. Drawing from her experience, Billy writes a play: 'The Lake Shore Limited'. The opening night brings together three people whose lives intersect and interweave with Billy's: Leslie, Gus's older sister, haunted by his death and constantly aware of what could have been; Rafe, the actor who brings the joy and sadness of his own marriage into his role; and Sam, a recently divorced man who is irresistibly drawn to Billy's distinctive, enigmatic beauty. Together these four voices create a mesmerizing novel of entanglements, connections and inconsolable losses. What readers are saying about The Lake Shore Limited: 'Sue Miller at her best ... Beautiful, moving, enriching' 'A multi-layered story that exposes the dark and light side of the human condition' 'So real, intimate and honest' 'Dazzling' 'Miraculous' 'Sue Miller's writing is outstanding and beautiful. Definitely five stars' 'One of the best books I've read in a long time' 'I loved it' 'Original and transformative' 'I adore this book, and can't recommend it strongly enough'

A dazzlingly original novel, from the bestselling author of Monogamy

The Lake Shore Limited

Thirty years ago Jo Becker's bohemian life ended when she found her best friend brutally murdered in the house they shared in Cambridge. Now Jo has everything: work she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, and a beautiful home. But when an old friend settles in her small town, the fabric of her life begins to unravel and Jo hesitantly enters a relationship that returns her to the darkest moments of her past, imperilling all that she loves.

While I was gone

In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples with the haunting memories of those final months and the larger narrative of her father's life. With compassion, self-scrutiny, and an urgency born of her own yearning to rescue her father's memory from the disorder and oblivion that marked his dying and death, Sue Miller takes us on an intensely personal journey that becomes, by virtue of her enormous gifts of observation, perception, and literary precision, a universal story of fathers and daughters. James Nichols was a fourth-generation minister, a retired professor from Princeton Theological Seminary. Sue Miller brings her father brilliantly to life in these pages-his religious faith, his endless patience with his children, his gaiety and willingness to delight in the ridiculous, his singular gifts as a listener, and the rituals of church life that stayed with him through his final days. She recalls the bitter irony of watching him, a church historian, wrestle with a disease that inexorably lays waste to notions of time, history, and meaning. She recounts her struggle with doctors, her deep ambivalence about many of her own choices, and the difficulty of finding, continually, the humane and moral response to a disease whose special cruelty it is to dissolve particularities and to diminish, in so many ways, the humanity of those it strikes. She reflects, unforgettably, on the variable nature of memory, the paradox of trying to weave a truthful narrative from the threads of a dissolving life. And she offers stunning insight into her own life as both a daughter and a writer, two roles that swell together here in a poignant meditation on the consolations of storytelling. With the care, restraint, and consummate skill that define her beloved and best-selling fiction, Sue Miller now gives us a rigorous, compassionate inventory of two lives, in a memoir destined to offer comfort to all sons and daughters struggling-as we all eventually must-to make peace with their fathers and with themselves.

A Memoir

The Story of My Father

After being diagnosed at nineteen with tuberculosis in 1919, a young woman is sent to a sanitarium, where she rediscovers the pleasures of unfettered youth and falls in love with a doomed man, in a novel that follows the lives of two women of two very different generations. Reprint.

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