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Four unforgettable people beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the writer of 2008’s heralded best vendor The Senator’s Better half. First among them is Wilhelmina—Billy—Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully focused on her are a playwright. The story itself centers around The Lake Shore Limited—a play Billy has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that teach as it pulls into Union Place in Chicago, and in regards to a man waiting to listen to the fate of his estranged wife, who is traveling on it. Billy got waited in only such a way on 9/11 to listen to whether her enthusiast, Gus, was using one of the planes found in the attack.
The novel movements from the snow-filled woods of Vermont to the rainy brick sidewalks of Boston as the lives of the other people intersect and interweave with Billy’s: Leslie, Gus’s sister, still driven by grief years after her sibling’s fatality; Rafe, the professional who rises to greatness in a performance encouraged by a night of incandescent lovemaking; and Sam, a man irresistibly drawn to Billy after he considers the play that so obviously displays the terrible issues and ambivalence of her situation.
How Billy has come to create the play out of these feelings, how it is then created anew on the level, the way the performance itself details and changes the other people’ lives—these form the thread that binds them all alongside one another and drives the novel compulsively forwards.
A powerful love history; a mesmerizing story of entanglements, associations, and inconsolable deficits; a marvelous reflection on this is of elegance and the uses of sorrow, in life and in art work: The Lake Shore Limited is Sue Miller at her amazing best.
From the Hardcover release.
