The Lake Shore Limited / Sue Miller.
"The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy's.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739377659
- Physical Description: 403 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House : 2010.
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Subject: | Women dramatists > Fiction. Victims of terrorism > Fiction. Terrorism victims' families > Fiction. Terrorism > Psychological aspects > Fiction. Drama > Fiction. |
Genre: | Large print books. Psychological fiction. |
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Summary
The Lake Shore Limited
Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from the author of last year's explosive New York Times best seller The Senator's Wife. First among them is Wilhelmina--Billy--Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The novel centers around her play, The Lake Shore Limited, about the terrorist bombing of that train--and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. How Billy comes to write the play out of her own painful conflicts and ambivalence, how it is then created anew by the actors and the director, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives--these form the vital core of a story that drives the novel compulsively forward. There's not a wasted word in this tour de force about the dislocations wrought in our lives by accidents of fate and time, and about how we try to make peace with whom we become in the face of circumstances beyond our control. From the Hardcover edition.