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The Lake Shore Limited

The Lake Shore Limited is a play about the terrorist bombing of that train and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. How Billy comes to write the play out of her own painful conflicts and ambivalence, how it is then created anew by the actors and the director, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives.

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  • "The lake shore limited"@it

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  • "Na het zien van een toneelstuk gebaseerd op de gebeurtenissen van 9/11 denken enkele mensen terug aan hun eigen (verloren) liefdesrelaties en proberen daarover samen te praten."
  • "Three years after the death of her brother Gus, Leslie still thinks about what might have been if Gus hadn't got on that plane on September 11th. As she and her husband sit down to watch THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED, a disquietingly autobiographical play written by Gus's former girlfriend Billy, she can¡t help but wonder if Billy too has been unable to let go of his memory. But does she really know Billy? Meanwhile, Sam, Leslie's friend, finds in the play inescapable echoes of his life and begins to fall for Billy's distinctive, enigmatic beauty."
  • "The Lake Shore Limited is a play about the terrorist bombing of that train and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. How Billy comes to write the play out of her own painful conflicts and ambivalence, how it is then created anew by the actors and the director, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives."@en
  • "Wilhelmina - Billy - Gertz writes a play about terrorist bombing of a train - and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. How Billy comes to write the play out of her own painful conflicts and ambivalence, how it is then created anew by the actors and the director, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives - these form the vital core of a story that drives the novel compulsively forward."@en
  • ""The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy's."@en
  • ""The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy's."
  • "Three years after the death of her younger brother Gus, Leslie still thinks of what might have been: if Gus hadn't got on that plane on September 11th, if her husband understood the nature of her grief, if she had made different choices. -- Cover."@en
  • "Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008's heralded best seller The Senator's Wife. First among them is Wilhelmina-Billy-Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The story itself centers on The Lake Shore Limited--a play Billy has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that train as it pulls into Union Station in Chciago, and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife, who is traveling on it. Billy had waited in just such a way on 9/11 to hear whether her lover, Gus, was on one of the planes used in the attack. The novel moves from the snow-filled woods of Vermont to the rainy brick sidewalks of Boston as the lives of the other characters intersect and interweave with Billy's: Leslie, Gus's sister, still driven by grief years after her brother's death; Rafe, the actor who rises to greatness in a performance inspired by a night of incandescent lovemaking; and Sam, a man irresistibly drawn to Billy after he sees the play that so clearly displays the terrible conflicts and ambivalence of her situation. How Billy has come to create the play out of these emotions, how it is then created anew on the stage, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives--these form the thread that binds them all together and drives the novel compulsively forward. A powerful love story; a mesmerizing tale of entanglements, connections, and inconsolable losses; a marvelous reflection on the meaning of grace and the uses of sorrow, in life and in art: The Lake Shore Limited is Sue Miller at her dazzling best. -- From the Hardcover edition -- taken from the OverDrive website."
  • "Billy Gertz is committed to her work as a playwright. "The Lake Shore Limited" is her play about a terrorist bombing of that train and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. It will change Billy, the actors and the director, and the lives of all involved."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
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  • "Il treno del lago"
  • "Il treno del lago"@it
  • "The Lake Shore Limited"@en
  • "The Lake Shore Limited"
  • "The LAKE SHORE LIMITED : A NOVEL"
  • "The Lake Shore Limited [a novel]"@en
  • "De laatste voorstelling"
  • "The Lake Shore limited"@en
  • "The Lake Shore limited"
  • "The lake shore limited"

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