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 imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. The author of the iconic The Good Mother and the best-selling While I Was Gone brings her marvelous gifts to a powerful story of two unconventional women who unexpectedly change each other's lives.
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia's husband's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun.
Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been beloved—the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, the superb economy of style—fused with an utterly engrossing story that has a great deal to say to women, and men, of all ages.
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia's husband's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun.
Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been beloved—the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, the superb economy of style—fused with an utterly engrossing story that has a great deal to say to women, and men, of all ages.
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Hardback Editions
November 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Senator's Wife (Charnwood) Author(s): Sue Miller ISBN: 1-84782-426-9 / 9781847824264 (UK edition) Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Senator's Wife Author(s): Sue Miller ISBN: 0-307-26420-3 / 978-0-307-26420-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2008 : Hardback
| Title: The Senator's Wife Author(s): Sue Miller ISBN: 0-7393-2771-2 / 978-0-7393-2771-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
March 2009 : Paperback
| Title: The Senator's Wife Author(s): Sue Miller ISBN: 0-7475-9640-9 / 978-0-7475-9640-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 2009 : Paperback
| Title: The Senator's Wife (Vintage Contemporaries) Author(s): Sue Miller ISBN: 0-307-27669-4 / 978-0-307-27669-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2008 : Paperback
| Title: The Senator's Wife Author(s): Sue Miller ISBN: 0-7475-9483-X / 978-0-7475-9483-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
September 2008 : Audio Cassette
| Title: The Senator's Wife Author(s): Sue Miller ISBN: 0-7531-3282-6 / 978-0-7531-3282-1 (UK edition) Publisher: ISIS Audio Books Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
September 2008 : Audio CD
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Other Editions
January 2008 : Unknown
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