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With precision and a rich vitality, sue millerbeloved and bestselling author of while i was gonebrings us a highly charged, superlative novel about marriage. Why do you think miller called her novel the senators wife when meris story gets equal time. Delia wife of the twoterm liberal senator tom naughton is meri s new neighbor in the adjacent new england town house. Jan 06, 2009 i sympathized with the senators wife because to me her story arc is the most satisfying, and ill probably read more sue miller books since i gained something as an author, but the six hours spent with mrs. Once again sue miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and. Sue miller reads from the senators wife politics and parallel lives serve as a backdrop for the complexities of marriage in sue millers new novel. May 31, 2009 enter the senators wife, the newest novel by sue miller and the first that i have read. Sue millers novels, beginning with her assured debut, the good mother 1986, tend to feature soapopera plots fleshed out with remarkable psychological detail and emotional precision. In her latest novel, sue miller contemplates wifehood from the perspective of two womenone at the start of her marriage, the other reconciled to the. Buy the senators wife first edition by miller, sue isbn.
The men in the novel arent as fully developed as the women because they are not its focus. First among them is wilhelmina billy gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, pow. The other wife, meri, is younger and gets pregnant during the course of the book. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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