The distinguished guest

Sue Miller

first published 1995 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002 paperback 288 pages

Wheeler large print book series

The Distinguished Guest chronicles the visit of an ailing woman to her son and his family. Lily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and famous for writing, at age seventy-two, a memoir about the dissolution of her marriage years earlier and the spiritual and political crises that precipitated that rift. Now, stricken with Parkinson's disease, Lily must cope with her fading powers as well as with disturbing memories...

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The Distinguished Guest paperback · 2002 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 288 pages · 9780747557982
The Distinguished Guest paperback · 1999 · Harper Perennial · 272 pages · 9780060930004
The distinguished guest edition · 1996 · Flamingo · 282 pages
The distinguished guest edition · 1995 · HarperCollins · 282 pages
The distinguished guest edition · 1995 · Wheeler Pub. · 364 pages

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