Book Info:

Classification: Fiction
Author: Sue Miller
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Copyright: 2008

Review #1

Reviewer: Carol
Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: Sue Miller's latest offering deals with loyalty and betrayal within marriages and friendships. Newly married Me ri and Nathan buy half a duplex owned by Senator Tom Naught on and his wife Delia. What bonds keep couples in love; what infidelities can be accepted? Four potentially interesting characters, not fully developed, within a story too slowly paced.

Review #2

Reviewer: Nancy
Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: This voyeuristic, slightly smarmy novel is a look at two marriages, both of them unidimensional and tediously explored.  The Senator and his wife, long-married, have lived apart for years, his many infidelities making a life together impossible although his wife, Delia "loves" (read "lusts after") him still.  Meri and her husband Nathan are newlyweds who seem to have little connection beyond sex when they move into the house next to Delia.  Years pass, with Meri's unwanted pregnancy and the Senator's stroke the main focus until their final betrayal of their respective spouses. Miller allows a happy ending for one couple, while only hinting at the lonely and loveless end the other endures.  Pass.