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The Distinguished Guest

- A Novel

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ΓÇ£Miller depicts [her characters] with grace and elegance, enriching their perceptions with strands of connecting images and intertwined history.... A very moving book.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöNew York Times Book Review  From bestselling author Sue Miller comes the poignant story of a mother and son that touches on the deepest concerns about love, art, family, and lifeΓÇönow with a P.S. section. Lily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and has become a famous writer at age seventy-two. Now, stricken with Parkinson''s disease and staying with her architect son Alan, Lily must cope with her fading powers as well as with disturbing memories of the events that estranged her from her children and ended her marriage. For Alan, her visit raises old questions about his relationship with her, about the choices he has made in his own life, and about the nature of love, disappointment, and grief.  Profound and deeply affecting, The Distinguished Guest reveals a family trying to understand the meaning of its life together, while confronting inevitable loss and the vision of an immeasurably altered future.  

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780062973498
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 288
  • Udgivet:
  • 11. august 2020
  • Størrelse:
  • 135x203x0 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 221 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 15. november 2024

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ΓÇ£Miller depicts [her characters] with grace and elegance, enriching their perceptions with strands of connecting images and intertwined history.... A very moving book.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöNew York Times Book Review 
From bestselling author Sue Miller comes the poignant story of a mother and son that touches on the deepest concerns about love, art, family, and lifeΓÇönow with a P.S. section.
Lily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and has become a famous writer at age seventy-two. Now, stricken with Parkinson''s disease and staying with her architect son Alan, Lily must cope with her fading powers as well as with disturbing memories of the events that estranged her from her children and ended her marriage. For Alan, her visit raises old questions about his relationship with her, about the choices he has made in his own life, and about the nature of love, disappointment, and grief. 
Profound and deeply affecting, The Distinguished Guest reveals a family trying to understand the meaning of its life together, while confronting inevitable loss and the vision of an immeasurably altered future.
 

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