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The Lake Shore Limited
Sue Miller
Knopf
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0307264211
EAN: 9780307264213
Hardcover
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Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this
spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008’s
heralded best seller The Senator’s Wife. First among them is
Wilhelmina—Billy—Gertz, small as a child, fiercely
independent, powerfully committed to her work as a
playwright. The story itself centers on The Lake Shore
Limited—a 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 Billy’s: Leslie,
Gus’s sister, still driven by grief years after her
brother’s 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 characters’
lives—these 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.
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