The Distinguished Guest - Couverture souple

Miller, Sue

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006548822 ISBN 13 : 9780006548829

Editeur : Flamingo, 1997

Synopsis

When at 72 Lily Roberts wrote her first book, a spiritual memoir, she became a national celebrity. Its intimate revelations about her married life were to cause great consternation in her family. Ten years later when Lily, now ill and frail comes to live with them, their resentment is still raw.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sue Miller was born in 1943 and educated in Chicago and at Harvard University. She worked as a teacher before winning a writing fellowship at Boston University. Her acclaimed novels include ‘The Good Mother’, ‘For Love’ and ‘The Distinguished Guest’.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

At the age of seventy-two, Lily Roberts suddenly became a national celebrity on writing her first book – a spiritual memoir. But her new-found fame was not well received by her children – her architect son Alan, and wayward daughter, Clary – who were profoundly disturbed by Lily’s intimate revelations about her married life. Ten years on, their resentment is still raw, and, when Lily, now ill and frail, comes to live with Alan and his own family, the bitter legacy of their very different memories threatens to upset the precarious balance of their lives …

In the great North American tradition of Carol Shields, Anne Tyler and Jane Smiley, Sue Miller has created a potent portrait of family life, of the ties that bind people together, and the lies that pull them apart.

“A rare pleasure … uncommonly gripping … deeply felt … remarkable.”
NEW YORK NEWSDAY

“Miller depicts her characters with grace and elegance. 'The Distinguished Guest' gathers momentum page by page, through a layering of detail. It is an audacious and subtly experimental book … very moving.”
NEW YORK TIMES

“Full of striking revelations … as canny as Miller can be about the rigors of family relationships, it’s the notion of storytelling itself that is most intriguing in this graceful book.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flamingo
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006548822
• ISBN 13: 9780006548829
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible