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 enlarge | Author: Sue Miller
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 3762
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307264203
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307264206
ASIN: 0307264203
Publication Date: January 8, 2008
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 ok read, disappointing end March 12, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
She did it "for love"? What drivel! The two protoganists are Meri and Delia. Meri is totally unlikeable and that she should rationalize her reason for ruining a couple's life as love is utterly ridiculous. I think Miller did not know how to end the book. Delia is a believable character and I was hoping for some dramatic justice for her in the end but that was not to be. This is the first time I read Sue Miller and I think I will avoid her in the future.
 Storytelling at its Best March 12, 2008
"Can two women of different generations become close friends, especially if one is young and pregnant and the other is older with a philandering husband who just happens to be a former United States Senator? The Senator's Wife is storytelling at its best about trust and betrayal between two strong women."
 what a read March 11, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is still haunting me, several weeks later. Yes, Sue Miller is minutely detailed and exhaustive but it really pays off. I actually experienced a revelation while being completely entertained, which is a rare thing. This is, I will hazard, a profound book. I didn't want it to end.
All the wrong reasons (Spoiler Alert) March 10, 2008
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
I read this book for the worst possible reason. I saw a review of it in Entertainment Weekly that made a big deal about some "shocking" sex scene in it and was so intrigued that I got the book from the library and spent the entire time I was reading it waiting for this one scene. Of course, it was a let down. Not only that, but the interminable time spent leading up to that disappointing scene was wasted on a meanadering, nearly plot-less story of two unlikable women and their petty marital and pregnancy problems. Meri is a 36-year-old newlywed first-time mother who spends most of the book snooping on her neighbor and whining about how pregnancy is changing her body. Um . . . duh? Her neighbor is Delia Naughton, the elderly wife of a philandering former senator who should have left her husband decades ago and didn't have enough self-respect to do it. Eventually Meri does something "naughty" with the senator (queue the not remotely shocking "sex" scene) and destroys the friendship she had with Delia, but the book leads up to this moment as if it were D-Day when in fact it's just another boring moment in an intensely boring book.
This is the first book I've read by Sue Miller and it will absolutely be the last. The trials and tribulations of housewives hold little interest for me, and I can't imagine why anyone else would be interested either, so I definitlely don't recommend this book.
Compelling, but disappointing March 10, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Sue Miller is always a compelling read, and this is no exception. The Senator's wife's devotion to him, despite his infidelities,is believable and sad. What disturbed me greatly was Meri's absolute cruelty at the end of the novel and her own belief that what she did, she did out of love. That is a comment on the ability some women have to lie to themselves about their own lust, labeling it as love. Meri is a thoroughly dispicable character, almost as bad as the self-centered Senator. Delia is the hero of this story and,sadly, its biggest victim.
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