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I like Sue Miller very much! The characters in her stories are well fleshed out and completely believable as people. The theme of this story, painful loss and how people choose to deal with it is searing. The way we see a situation, our own situation, how we privately think about it both as it is happening and in retrospect, how all these elements balance often on chance, we see through the eyes of the four main characters. This is a story about people, flawed and very human. If you need more action in a story then you should look elsewhere. Sue Miller has a talent for making the characters that inhabit her stories as real as anyone you might know, yet she allows you the privilege of hearing their most intimate thoughts which adds unmeasurable depth to her stories, to this story! You have only to listen and observe and learn from their experience. This is a solemn look into the reactions of four people who's lives overlap during the production of a play "The Lake Shore Limited". If you are patient, reflective, there is much insight to be taken from this lovely story!
Sue Miller writes convincingly about the challenges inherent in everyone's life in this novel that centers around a play, The Lake Shore Limited. Each of the four main characters has experienced the very good and the very painful in life. Sue Miller has a wonderful way of describing each character very fully and then describing the same event through their individual perceptions. At the end of this novel, the reader has an excellent insight into the choices each of the characters makes.
This book is excellent, as each of Sue Miller's books have been. The depth of character development and their psychological conditions was superb!
