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Hedersgästen : [roman] (1995)

av Sue Miller

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The moving story of a mother and son that touches the deepest concerns about love, art, family, and life Lily 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.… (mer)
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I especially enjoyed her presentation (via character's memories) of how various factions responded to the black rights movement, and also how important language was as both a tool and a weapon in that struggle. ( )
  keithostertag | Jun 5, 2020 |
this is well written, and nice to read, so i'd read her again. but this is missing something vital to me. it's not quite depth, although it approaches that...maybe it's that thing that makes a reader care about the depth, care about the characters and the conflict and the revelations. it was missing here for me. maybe that's hard to do with a story that is supposed to be so banal, but i really did want more from that aspect.

but the writing is good. the themes appear again and again, tie into each other well, work with her changing tenses. i just wanted to care more.

"The sun is lying across the old woman's hands, and they have turned up, as if to grab it." ( )
  overlycriticalelisa | Dec 17, 2019 |
I'm going back to list previously read books here to keep track of them.
Don't really remember all the nuances of this book.
I finished it, so I would have been enjoying it at the time - made some obscure notes about subject, characters.
Not enough to react to why I felt it was a just "ok" read.
Think it felt a bit discouraging to me.
Read in 2010. ( )
  CasaBooks | Apr 28, 2013 |
Beautifully written, insightful, big issues, very compelling characters. I liked this book a lot, and was constantly impressed with Miller's ability to get to the heart of a situation: dealing with an aging parent; coping with the loss of control over a diseased body; figuring out what makes a marriage work. Her contention that language is one of the factors that makes us who we are made me stop and think. There were many memorable passages. I am very glad to have found this novel. ( )
  Bellettres | Jun 10, 2009 |
Lily Maynard is a famous author, famous mainly because she wrote her first book at 72 years of age. Alan, her youngest child, is an architect who lives on the East Coast with his French wife Gaby. Lily is now in her 90s and has Parkinsons and comes to live with Alan. Their relationship is complicated and contentious, but the author never fully explains why. Good writing, excellent description, but the reader is left a little unsatisfied at the end. ( )
  CatieN | Mar 4, 2009 |
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The moving story of a mother and son that touches the deepest concerns about love, art, family, and life Lily 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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