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The Lake Shore Limited
Sue Miller
Published
2010
by Random House Large Print in New York
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Written in English
The Lake Shore Limited is a play about the terrorist bombing of that train and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. How Billy comes to write the play out of her own painful conflicts and ambivalence, how it is then created anew by the actors and the director, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters" lives.
Edition Notes
| Statement | Sue Miller |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3563.I421444 L35 2010b |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 403 p. (large print) |
| Number of Pages | 403 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL27119027M |
| ISBN 10 | 9780739377659 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 496807377 |
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In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. It’s a cold and rainy night when the main characters of The Lake Shore Limited, the ninth novel by Sue Miller, converge on a small theater in and her husband, Pierce, have driven down from their cozy home in rural Vermont to see the newest play written by Wilhelmina (Billy) Getz.
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[Sue Miller] -- That's what the play was about, she was thinking abruptly. The wish to imagine what life could be, how it could change, if you were unencumbered. Did everyone who was married do this from time to.
