Lost in the Forest - Hardcover

MILLER, Sue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747577471 ISBN 13: 9780747577478

Publisher: Knopf, 2005

Synopsis

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date :2005-5-1 Pages: 247 The novel turns on this event. while giving forth the past: Marks infidelity to Eva. their divorce. Evas marriage to John. the friendship Mark comes to feel for Eva and John. the childrens adjustments to changed life -. in other words. the stitching together of this family. with all its fault lines and tremors When John dies. things shatter again. and the whole process must begin anew We see into the heart of Eva. . worried about the slow recession of her grief. the healing that is taking place within her; we are privy to the longing Mark feels. falling in love with his ex-wife all over again; and we see Daisy. the younger daughter. beginning to realize her power as a woman. experiencing her grief with acts of secret defiance. and finally becoming involved with the husband of her mothers best friend. We follow these s...

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For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, "The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of her novels, Miller has written with exquisite precision about the experience of grace in daily life-the sudden, epiphanic recognition of the extraordinary amid the ordinary-as well as the sharp and unexpected motions of the human heart away from it, toward an unruly netherworld of upheaval and desire. But never before have Miller's powers been keener or more transfixing than they are in "Lost in the Forest, a novel set in the vineyards of Northern California that tells the story of a young girl who, in the wake of a tragic accident, seeks solace in a damaging love affair with a much older man.
Eva, a divorced and happily remarried mother of three, runs a small bookstore in a town north of San Francisco. When her second husband, John, is killed in a car accident, her family's fragile peace is once again overtaken by loss. Emily, the eldest, must grapple with newfound independence and responsibility. Theo, the youngest, can only begin to fathom his father's death. But for Daisy, the middle child, John's absence opens up a world of bewilderment, exposing her at the onset of adolescence to the chaos and instability that hover just beyond the safety of parental love. In her sorrow, Daisy embarks on a harrowing sexual odyssey, a journey that will cast her even farther out onto the harsh promontory of adulthood and lost hope.
With astonishing sensuality and immediacy, "Lost in the Forest movesthrough the most intimate realms of domestic life, from grief and sex to adolescence and marriage. It is a stunning, kaleidoscopic evocation of a family in crisis, written with delicacy and masterful care. For her lifelong fans and those just discovering Sue Miller for the first time, here is a rich and gorgeously layered tale of a family breaking apart and coming back together again: Sue Miller at her inimitable best.

About the Author:

Sue Miller is the bestselling author of the novels The World Below, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, Inventing the Abbotts, and The Good Mother, and of the acclaimed memoir The Story of My Father. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0747577471
• ISBN 13: 9780747577478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1