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The Lake Shore Limited

By Sue Miller

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| Hardcover | 9780307264213

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Four people are bound together by the 9/11 death of a man in Miller's insightful latest. Leslie, older sister and stand-in mother to the late Gus, clings to the notion that Gus had found true love with his girlfriend, Billy, before he was killed. But the truth is more complicated: Billy, a playwrighContinue

Four people are bound together by the 9/11 death of a man in Miller's insightful latest. Leslie, older sister and stand-in mother to the late Gus, clings to the notion that Gus had found true love with his girlfriend, Billy, before he was killed. But the truth is more complicated: Billy, a playwright, has written a new play that explores the agonizing hours when a family gathers, not knowing the fate of their mother and wife who was aboard a train that has been bombed. The ambivalent reaction of the woman's husband has shades of Billy and Gus's relationship, particularly the limbo she's been in since he died. Rafe, the actor playing the ambivalent husband, processes his own grief and guilt about his terminally ill wife as he steps more and more into his character. Finally, there's Sam, an old friend Leslie now hopes to set up with Billy. While the plot doesn't have the suspense and zip of The Senator's Wife, Miller's take on post-9/11 America is fascinating and perfectly balanced with her writerly meditations on the destructiveness of trauma and loss, and the creation and experience of art.

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  • The Lake Shore Limited

    Four multilayered characters --- Leslie, Billy, Rafe and Sam --- come to life in the pages of this devastating and elegant novel set in 2007. They intersect in the repercussions of the memory of Gus, who died on September 11, 2001 when the plane on w ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Tue, 6 Sep 2011

  • The Lake Shore Limited, By Sue Miller

    When the curtain goes up on Sue Miller's new novel, we find ourselves at the first night of a soon-to-be hit play. The unfolding drama concerns a man coming to terms with the death of his wife in a terrorist attack on a Chicago train. To the audience ... (read full critics)

    independent published on Fri, 1 Jul 2011

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0307264211
  • ISBN-13: 9780307264213
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Pub date: Apr 06, 2010
  • Also available as: Others and eBook
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