The Distinguished Guest
A Contemporary, Novels, Abandoned book. ...that she is beautiful, an impossible kind of beauty, composed of all...
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- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780060930004 / 60930004
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...that she is beautiful, an impossible kind of beauty, composed of all the wrong elements: white hair, the flawless but deeply lined skin, the freckles of age dotting the hands and face. Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest // There were disappointments. Things you couldnt know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadnt wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of. Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest: reissued // I sometimes worried that the more instinctive forms of love were not so available to you. That easy maternal devotion, for instance, that seemed so natural in some women, and which, as we spoke of from time to time, was something you had to struggle to feel. [p. 189] Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest //
Alans mother, Lily, wrote a memoir and several short stories when she was in her seventies received accolades for them. Now she is in her eighties and suffering from Parkinsons. While waiting for space in a nursing home, she temporarily moves into Alan and Gabys house.Alan and his sister, Clary, are rather incensed that Lily gained... I really don't know how I managed to finish reading this book. Perhaps I thought something was going to happen eventually? And when it did it was an anti-climax. There was potential for interesting reading - Alan and Gaby's love story, possible infidelity and some interesting minor characters. But all we get instead is a lot about Lily... Lily Maynard found fame at age 72 with the publication of a powerful memoir. After years of academic and media attention and independence, she is now coping with advanced Parkinson's disease and she is forced to move in with her son, Alan. For Alan, a successful architect, this move brings up a complex range of emotions causing him...
