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by Sue Miller

Author:

Sue Miller

ISBN13:

978-1400042265

ISBN:

1400042267

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English

Publisher:

Knopf; 1st edition (April 5, 2005)

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Fiction

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Genre Fiction

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In Lost In The Forest, Sue Miller inhabits the family. As its domestic drama unfolds, Lost In The Forest begins to transform itself. What the reader expected to be a tale of relationships rekindled and rediscovered abruptly changes to focus on the younger daughter, Daisy

In Lost In The Forest, Sue Miller inhabits the family. It’s an extended family, of course, extended in the twenty-first century Anglo-Saxon sense of it being stretched and disrupted by divorce, re-marriage and identity-seeking children. The book starts in what seems to be a conventional setting. Mark and Eva have been divorced for several years. What the reader expected to be a tale of relationships rekindled and rediscovered abruptly changes to focus on the younger daughter, Daisy. Daze, as she is called by her father, rarely lives up to either of her names.

Praise for Lost in the Forest A richly peopled and characteristically . The Story of My Father.

Praise for Lost in the Forest A richly peopled and characteristically cool-eyed narrative. In this moving book, Miller explores the complex relationships between daughters and their fathers, and the bonds that sustain them. fluidly written, perfectly paced novel. The Arizona Republic. Rivetin. iller once again demonstrates her singular gift for capturing the rhythms of daily family life with laserlike clarity while also summoning the turbulent emotions just beneath the surface.

Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Sue Miller has been making it new now for a long time, and Lost in the Forest is a shining affirmation that her power only continues to grow' Washington Post 'Sue Miller's latest novel secures her place in the company of writers like Anne Tyler and Alison Lurie. Lost in the Forest has a seemingly effortless grace; Miller quickly captures and never loses our attention' Daily Mail 'Sue Miller brings unusual skill in the exploration of women's hopes and regrets.

Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller; Orange L/L, 2006; (3 1/2 ) I thought this to be a brilliant novel in many ways. It's also frightening as it begins with a with the death of a husband and parent. Sue Miller is the best-selling author of the novels The World Below, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, and The Good Mother; the story collection Inventing the Abbotts; and the memoir The Story of My Father.

Lost in the Forest (Ballantine Reader's Circle). Like Sue Miller's bestselling novels, this collection of short stories explores the treacherously shifting ground of erotic and family relationships with deftness and depth. The title story is about a young man who takes up successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. In other stories, whose characters range from a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity to a stricken dowager whose seizures release a brutal and sometimes obscene candor, Sue Miller presents a compelling gallery of contemporary men and women with hungry hearts and dismayed consciences.

ABOUT THIS BOOK Sue Miller’s powers have never 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 ma. Beyond the Book" backstories. Find books by time period, setting & theme.

Автор: Miller, Sue Название: Lost in the Forest Издательство: Random House (USA) Классификация: Современная художественная .

Lost in the Forest: reissued. Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller. One minute John is the cornerstone of Eva's world, rock to his two teenage stepdaughters and his own son Theo, the next he is tossed through the air in a traffic accident, and snapped like a twig. His sudden death changes everything. Eva struggles with the terror and desolation of loneliness, and finds herself drawn back to her untrustworthy ex-husband; Emily, the eldest daughter, grapples with her new-found independence and responsibility.

Sue Miller: There were multiple sources of inspiration for Lost in the Forest. I had written a short story some years ago about Mark and Eva, a short story I never published, as it seemed somehow incomplete in my own mind. It focused on Mark and his dream of getting Eva back after the death of her second husband. It ended with the scene in the book when Theo suddenly remembers his father’s death, remembers him as ﬂying at that moment, and Mark realizes from Eva’s response to Theo that his hopes are utterly futile

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.

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 moves through 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.

Mightdragon

Sue Miller is, I believe, one of the finest writers in the fiction world today. Her insight into the human psyche is unparalleled. "Lost In The Forest" is a fine example of her craftmanship. The character development is stunning, drawing the reader into the midst of this whole sad family

The seduction of Daisy is dealt with in a rather offhand manner, leading the reader to believe that the author finds this horrific relationship ,although lifechanging,somehow helpful to this child. The fact that the father knew and did nothing is incomprehensible. To allow the perpetrator to escape without punishment or even chastisement is shocking. Where are the moral valus of the author? I really think I will pass on any more of her novels! .

Tuliancel

Regarding Mark's discovery of his 15 yr. old daughter's relationship with a 53 year old man:

Yes, the relationship is repulsive and hard to read about. We are forced to open our eyes to something that we know as a society does happen: many atrractive young girls do become the objects of older mens' fantasies and sexual attentions. We know wihtout even thiking about it that the typical response would be that most fathers blow up and reject their daughters in response to having knowledge of such acts.

Although Miller makes Mark's response different, it is not unrealistic in the context of the rest of the storyline. Mark's response is inextricably linked to his ongoing relationship with Eva. As both Emily and Daisy state toward the end of the book, the children's lives were shaped/marred by their "exclusion" from the intimacy that their parents shared. Because Mark still loved her, his first instincts would have been to protect EVA from the knowledge of what happened to their daughter. He knew fully that with all Eva had lost and suffered that this would crush her.

Fortunately for Daisy, over the years, Mark had come to realize his culpability in being an absent father while married, his replacement by John in both Eva's and Daisy's hearts, and even after the loss of his "replacement" through the death of Daisy's step-father. Daisy would not continue to be lost to him, however; she called out to him by crying in the night -- a few days later, he heard her cry in a different way and came to her aid becoming the father she desperately wanted and needed.

Young girls like Daisy do reach out to older/other men when their fathers are absent or have died. The men they find available to them may have other objectives, yet seem to fill a void and shape too many young girls lives. I think Sue Miller successfully addressed a very thorny subject on so many levels that a second reading would intensify an understanding of the strength of her words and message to us as a society.

Barit

This is my first Sue Miller so I'm not sure how it compares to her others...but its a decent novel to keep you occupied for a few days. The basics of the story has been described in other reviews so I won't repeat it, but I will say that about two-thirds the way into the novel, rather than getting more interesting the conflicts between characters seemed old, like they were being replayed.

One of my favorite scenes from this book is the family around the table when Theo, the youngest (about 3-4) requests a story...and each of the others tell a part. This scene reappeared a few times, captured what I think is some of the essence that Miller tries to convey.

Doriel

"Forest" is a somewhat halting examination of the long-term ramifications of a dysfunctional marriage. It's not really clear why book-lover Eva married dyslexic Mark, other than physical attraction. But the distance between them was obvious with the sudden termination of the marriage upon Eva's learning of Mark's infidelity. She would have none of what a later, mature friend Gracie would call "bumps in matrimony." But Miller ratchets this story up a notch.

The carefully constructed contentment that Eva eventually finds is shattered with the accidental death of second husband John, a publisher of books. John's death is not only devastating to Eva, but teen-aged daughter Daisy is especially traumatized, being unable to express grief. Finding paths to move beyond this tragedy is the essence of the story. Both Mark and Eva are forced to deal with rekindled interest in each other.

One unexpected direction taken is the seduction of gawky, leggy, but budding beauty, Daisy by an older family friend. For the author, her sexual awakening serves, at least in the short term, as some sort of substitute for the absence of good parenting, whether through divorce or death. One is left wondering why this lengthy affair with the immature Daisy did not destroy many parties rather than seemingly heal.

The end of the book is unremarkable. Life is continuing. Many may feel an absence of development or depth in this relatively short book. As it is, we have a sensitive glimpse at coping and growth in a world that can and will throw most anything our ways.

Kefym

This was a predictable tale. Some of the characters never came alive for me, some were very well done.

Hunaya

I am a trifle shocked that I didn't really care for this book, since I have positively loved all Miller's other novels. With her other books I was deeply involved with the characters from the get-go, here the pages just went dreamily by with no personal feeling of involvment, or sense of caring for any of the many flat personalities populating its pages. I began to feel that the author was simply trying to manipulate her readers by means of her impressive writing prowess. Perhaps this feeling was heightened by the books slenderness. In the accompanying Reader's Guide the author reveals that the novel started its life as a unpublished short story; she also mentions Henry James' short novel, "What Maisie Knew" as an inspiration. But, alas, James' work is incomparably more powerful than Miller's has turned out. I hope this is a rare letdown in Miller's oeuvre, she is certainly a major American writer!

Alsardin

Divorce, loss, sexual awakening, questionable morals. Daisy goes from awkward teen to experienced lover, through the actions of her mother's best friend's husband. Oh dear.

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