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 decide di tornare nella casa della nonna Georgia, in Vermont, per cercare di riprendersi dal suo secondo divorzio. In quelle stanze piene di ricordi spera di lasciarsi alle spalle le preoccupazioni e i problemi. Catherine trova per caso i diari della nonna che le rivelano una donna molto diversa da quella che lei ha conosciuto. Le pagine ingiallite della memoria ripercorrono gli anni senza celare nulla: la passione mai sopita per Stewart, il suo primo, breve amore, e le incompremnsioni, i dubbi e i segreti che hanno segnato il suo lungo matrimonio. Catherine sente nascere un legame fortissimo con questa donna, così simile a lei, e decide di riprendere in mano la sua vita.

In una grande casa del Middle West vivono gli Eberhardt: un padre psichiatra, una mamma a tempo pieno e sei figli di cui uno speciale, enigmatico. Per i medici autistico. Il romanzo racconta i momenti di felicità, le crisi matrimoniali, la complessità dei sentimenti, e ci lascia negli occhi tante istantanee di vita domestica. Intorno ai suoi personaggi così veri, la grande scrittrice americana intreccia una storia che offre uno spaccato della nostra società e fa risuonare la musica del quotidiano.

BESTSELLER NAZIONALE • Un romanzo "raffinato, elegante e sensuale" che esplora il matrimonio e il perdono. Meri è appena sposata, incinta e si trova sull'orlo della sua vita come moglie e madre, riconoscendo con un certo terrore il divario tra realtà e aspettativa. Delia, moglie del senatore liberale Tom Naughton, è la nuova vicina di Meri nella casa adiacente nel New England. L'infedeltà cronica di Tom è un segreto di Pulcinella nei circoli di Washington, ma nonostante la complessità della loro relazione, il legame tra Delia e Tom rimane forte. Presto Delia e Meri si ritrovano a vivere vite stranamente parallele, mentre entrambe si confrontano con i contorni e i misteri del matrimonio: uno raffinato e logorato da anni di intimità complicata, l'altro appena iniziato. Con precisione e una ricca vitalità, Sue Miller ci offre un romanzo altamente carico e superlativo.

This stunning collection of 28 stories brings readers a literary portrait of the American family from 1894 to today. A collection of works that captures the essence of American families from living together and apart to loving and letting go.Regret / Kate Chopin --The lombardy poplar / Mary Wilkins Freeman --The widow's might / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Old Rogaum and his Theresa / Theodore Dreiser --The sorrows of gin / John Cheever --I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --Simple and Counsin F.D. Roosevelt Brown / Langston Hughes --The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines --My Coney Island uncle / Harvey Swados --My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud --Final dwarf / Henry Roth --And Sarah laughed / Joanne Greenberg --Wedding day / Roberta Silman --The legacy of Beau Kremel / Stephen Wolf --Kiswana Brown / Gloria Naylor --Tuesdays / Mary Hedin --Afloat / Ann Beattie --Winterblossom garden / David Low --Old things / Bobbie Ann Mason --Starlight / Marian Thurm --The writer in the family / E.L. Doctorow --The rich brother / Tobias Wolff --My legacy / Don Zacharia --Violation / Mary Gordon --Appropriate affect / Sue Miller --What I did for love / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --Still of some use / John Updike --Elephant / Raymond Carver

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.

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.

Have you ever imagined a different life? 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 time, imagine an unencumbered life?

“Riveting . . . While I Was Gone [celebrates] what is impulsive in human nature.” –The New York Times “Miller weaves her themes of secrecy, betrayal, and forgiveness into a narrative that shines.” –Time Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Drawn deeper into her memories of that fateful summer in 1968, Jo begins to obsess about the person she once was. As she is pulled farther from her present life, her husband, and her world, Jo struggles against becoming enveloped by her past and its dark secret. “[While I Was Gone] swoops gracefully between the past and the present, between a woman’s complex feelings about her husband and her equally complex fantasies–and fears–about another man. . . . [Miller writes] well about the trials of faith.” –The New York Times Book Review “Quietly gripping . . . Jo shines steadily as the flawed and thoroughly modern heroine. As in her 1986 novel, The Good Mother, Miller shows how impulses can fracture the family.” –USA Today “Marvelous . . . poignant . . . powerful.” –Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer

A reissue of the powerful and troubling debut sensation - which spent over six months at top of the New York Times bestseller list on its original publication thirty years ago Recently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful - and sexual - for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new family - that force her to prove she is a good mother.

'Penetrating, intelligent, humane, funny too ... Smart and powerfully alive' Tessa Hadley 'Superb' Daily Mail 'A poignant page-turner, delving deep into our most intimate relationships' Evening Standard Annie is the great love of Graham's life. Here they are in late middle-age, the photographer and the bookseller, so mismatched and yet so well-matched. Theirs is a happy marriage of nearly thirty years - and even the happiest of marriages, Graham tells himself, have their secrets. Then the unthinkable happens, and suddenly Annie is alone, stumbling in the dark. How much can we ever know the people who love us? 'With what exquisite truth Sue Miller writes ... I was completely wrapped up in the beautifully, and often so tenderly observed rollercoaster of grief. An invaluably moving book' Juliet Nicolson 'It's absolutely wonderful - detailed, precise emotions that Miller gets down in such a tender moving way ... Devasting. Brilliant' Claire Fuller

One minute John is the cornerstone of Eva's world, rock to his two teenage stepdaughters and his own son Theo; the next he is tossed through the air in a traffic accident. His sudden death changes everything. Eva struggles with the desolation of loneliness, finding herself drawn back to her untrustworthy ex-husband; Emily, the eldest daughter, grapples with her new-found independence and responsibility. Little Theo can only begin to fathom the permanence of his father's death. But for the middle child Daisy, John's absence opens up a whole world of confusion. Just at the onset of adolescence and blossoming sexuality, Daisy is exposed to the terrifying duplicity of life, the instability that hovers just beyond the safety of parental love, and the powerlessness of that love to protect or even console her. In steps a man only too willing to take advantage of her emotions. Lost in the Forest is a powerful and gorgeously layered testament to the fluidity of life and the web of connections that bind us, divide us, and drive us on. A finely observed portrait of marriage and family; an intensely sensual journey through the consuming realms of grief and sex; and an unforgettable evocation of adolescent yearning and vulnerability, this is Sue Miller at her inimitable best.

Set against the backdrop of 1960s New York, the book delves into the evolution of Cuban dance music, spotlighting key figures like José Fajardo and Johnny Pacheco. It explores the Cuban flute style's transformation post-1959 revolution and the vibrant charangas that thrived during the chachachá and pachanga craze, often overlooked in existing literature. By addressing issues of race, class, and identity, alongside musical transcriptions and interviews, it uncovers a rich history and the unique sabor that emerged from the interplay between Cuban and New York musical cultures.

Het autisme van een zoon uit een psychiatersgezin met zes kinderen blijkt van grote invloed te zijn op het gezinsleven.

Een tragische ongeluk geeft de hoofdpersoon inzicht in het karakter van haar broer en daardoor ook in haar eigen verleden.