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The Lake Shore Limited / Sue Miller.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307264213 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 269 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
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| Subject: | Terrorism victims' families > Fiction. Terrorism > Psychological aspects > Fiction. Victims of terrorism > Fiction. Women dramatists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | LP FIC Mille | 31681002107043 | LARGEPT | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An insightful story examines how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz writes a play about the terrorist bombing of a train, how the work is then created anew by the actors and the director, and how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives. - Baker & Taylor
An insightful story examines how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz comes to write a play about the terrorist bombing of a train, how the work is then created anew by the actors and the director and how the performance itself touches and changes the other charactersâ lives. By the best-selling author ofThe Senator's Wife . - Random House, Inc.
Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008âs heralded best seller The Senatorâs Wife. First among them is WilhelminaâBillyâGertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The story itself centers on The Lake Shore Limitedâa play Billy has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that train as it pulls into Union Station in Chicago, and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife, who is traveling on it. Billy had waited in just such a way on 9/11 to hear whether her lover, Gus, was on one of the planes used in the attack.
The novel moves from the snow-filled woods of Vermont to the rainy brick sidewalks of Boston as the lives of the other characters intersect and interweave with Billyâs: Leslie, Gusâs sister, still driven by grief years after her brotherâs death; Rafe, the actor who rises to greatness in a performance inspired by a night of incandescent lovemaking; and Sam, a man irresistibly drawn to Billy after he sees the play that so clearly displays the terrible conflicts and ambivalence of her situation.
How Billy has come to create the play out of these emotions, how it is then created anew on the stage, how the performance itself touches and changes the other charactersâ livesâthese form the thread that binds them all together and drives the novel compulsively forward.
A powerful love story; a mesmerizing tale of entanglements, connections, and inconsolable losses; a marvelous 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.
