Posts Tagged Sue Miller
IN THE REALM: 13 Book Suggestions for Halloween
Posted by Amy Steele in Books on October 30, 2014
Each scary in their own way. some thrillers, some nonfiction, some memoirs and a few classics that totally creep me out. I read Stephen King’s Pet Sematary one summer and was afraid of things jumping out of bushes for a long while after finishing it.
1. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
3. Montana by Gwen Florio
4. Biohazard by Ken Alibek
5. Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
6. There Was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron
7. The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
10. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
11. Stiff: the curious lives of cadavers by Mary Roach
12. Threats by Amelia Gray
13. Working Stiff by Judy Melinek
book review: Lake Shore Limited
Posted by Amy Steele in Books on May 19, 2010
Title: The Lake Shore Limited
Author: Sue Miller
ISBN: 978-0307264213
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf; First Edition edition (April 6, 2010)
Category: modern fiction
Review source: publisher
Rating: 3.5/5
Her specialty before had always been sunless men. Dark, punishing, punished men. Men full of ambition and bitterness. She had fled Chicago, in fact, from such a man. Oh, certainly, there were professional reasons for the move, too. The job she’s gotten at BU, her feeling that she needed to leave the city she’d always lived in in order for anything big to happen to her, the sense that she was mired in familiar patterns in her work. She was not without ambition herself.
Last year, I absorbed Sue Miller’s The Senator’s Wife, a real page-turner, with rabid admiration and wonder. Her latest book, The Lake Shore Limited, focuses on another public obsession [and rightly so]: 9/11. I’ve read and enjoyed many novels about 9/11: Netherland and The Garden of Last Days among my favorites. Miller takes a curious, evocative approach in The Lake Shore Limited. The focus of the novel is a play about a terrorist attack on a train. Playwright Billy lost her lover, Gus, in 9/11. He was a passenger on one of the planes. Ironically, she had planned to move out and end the relationship. The characters in the novel– Billy, Rafe, the lead actor in the play, and Leslie, Gus’s sister– reflect on the play’s evocation of 9/11 as well as this theatrical catharsis. While not as gripping as I had hoped, Miller’s confident, thoughtful prose shines.
Sue Miller reads from The Lake Shore Limited at Brookline Booksmith tonight, May 19, 2010 at 7 pm.
buy at Amazon: The Lake Shore Limited
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