Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM EST
Sue Miller: “The Senator’s Wife”
Novelist Sue Miller gets very intimate, very quickly, and stays there. Her best-sellers have captivated readers since “The Good Mother.” Now, she’s pushing into the complex heart of marriage and, in this election year, political marriage — one of the most fraught kinds.
“The Senator’s Wife” is a novel that goes at the deep compromises that get made along the way in marriage. Sometimes very deep, as two people — and maybe more — struggle to make something humane out of betrayal.
This hour, On Point: novelist Sue Miller and “The Senator’s Wife.”
-Tom Ashbrook
Guest:
Sue Miller, author of numerous novels. Her new novel is “The Senator’s Wife”
Tags: books, literature, Sue Miller
[...] Want to know more? Read an interview by a real-life senator’s wife, Connie Schultz, here or listen to WBUR’s Tom Ashbrook interview the author here. [...]
Posted by Sue Miller kicks off the 2009 Evenings with Author season « The (Mostly) Official Blog of Thurber House, on January 13th, 2009 at 2:25 pm ESTJust finished reading The Senator’s Wife and while walking with my neighbor we discussed the book. We concluded that we were very disappointed and disgusted with the ending. The whole idea that a nursing breast would be seen as a sexual turn on is disturbing. Tom is way beyond a dirty old man. Meri’s use of their secret activity as being the positive stimulus for her growth into a good wife and mother was pathetic. We also had serious concerns for Sue Miller who thought up this plot.
Three other women read the same copy of this book and support the above comments.
Posted by emily dowling, on April 3rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm EDT