The Distinguished Guest
by Sue Miller
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Author: Sue MillerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01-08
ISBN: 0060930004
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Summary of The Distinguished Guest
The moving story of a mother and son that touches the deepest concerns about love, art, family, and lifeLily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and has become a famous writer at age seventy-two. Now, stricken with Parkinson's disease and staying with her architect son Alan, Lily must cope with her fading powers as well as with disturbing memories of the events that estranged her from her children and ended her marriage. For Alan, her visit raises old questions about his relationship with her, about the choices he has made in his own life, and about the nature of love, disappointment, and grief. Profound and moving, The Distinguished Guest reveals a family trying to understand the meaning of its life together, while confronting inevitable loss and the vision of an immeasurably altered future.
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