Sue Miller Libri

Lottie Gardner è una scrittrice free lance sulla quarantina e in crisi. Dopo anni di incontri clandestini ha finalmente sposato Jack, ma il matrimonio tanto sognato sembra aver spento la passione. Così l'improvviso ricovero della madre in una casa di cura offre alla donna l'occasione che cercava per tornare a Cambridge, Massachusetts, la cittadina della sua adolescenza. Quell'estate arrivano anche Cameron, l'immaturo e scapestrato fratello di Lottie, ed Elizabeth, l'amica di vent'anni prima, anche lei in fuga da un matrimonio ormai esaurito. Basta un nulla per accendere la passione, mai sopita, tra Cameron ed Elizabeth, mentre Lottie viene assalita dai ricordi. Sarà un drammatico incidente a dare una svolta alle loro vite.

Catherine Hubbard is at a crossroad in her San Francisco life. She is twice divorced - although she knows public opinion only seems to allow for one marital mistake - and her three children are grown and scattered. Then news comes that she has inherited her grandmother Georgia's home in Vermont. Putting her teaching job on hold, Catherine travels east to the house where she has frequently taken refuge, as a child from her mother's bouts of dementia and eventual suicide and later from the wreckage of her first marriage. Catherine finds in Vermont not only the ghosts of her own past but those of Georgia's as well. Diaries from the attic emerged of a young woman who had lost her own mother in her teens, who had been condemned to a sanitorium for tuberculosis, and there harboured a secret passion for a fellow patient. As Catherine increasingly comprehends the woman she has only ever known as a grandmother, she begins to feel as if she is living in two worlds, her own and Georgia's as a 'buried stream' below. With unforgettable characters so vivid you can almost see and touch them, THE WORLD BELOW is story telling at its most magical.

The eleven short stories in this collection concern the growing obsession of a young man, John, with the three pretty daughters of the Abbott family. But John's hand-to-mouth upbringing contrasts bitterly with the wealthy society life of the Abbotts, and to Alice, Eleanor and Pamela he will never be anything other than a "boy from the other side of the tracks".

At the age of 72, Lily Roberts becomes a national celebrity when she writes her spiritual memoirs. Her children, Alan and Clary, are disturbed by Lily's intimate revelations about her married life. Ten years on, Lily comes to live with Alan, and the bitterness threatens to upset their lives.

This tale of a proud, elderly woman who visits and bedevils her son has been hailed as "genuinely adult fiction" by the "Chicago Tribune". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A compilation of twenty American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 2001 and January 2002, selected for inclusion by guest editor Sue Miller.

Despite having a loving husband, three vivacious daughters, a beautiful home in rural Massachusetts, and satisfaction in her work, Jo Becker's mind is invaded by a persistent restlessness. Then, an old roommate reappears to bring back Jo's memories of her early 20s. . . . Her obsession with that period of her life and with the crime that concluded it eventually estrange Jo from everything she holds dear, causing her to tell lie after lie as she is pulled closer to this man from her past-and to a horrible secret. -Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel