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Authors: Sue Miller

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And then he sees what seems a child in a black coat almost at the end of the block, standing next to a large animal, a black dog. The dog is stopped, too, his nose down in the snow, digging at something under it. Sam takes some steps toward her to be sure. He can see the shape of her face now, the full cut of the coat he remembers.

He is walking toward her, faster now. He calls her name. His voice is muffled in the air of the park.

She turns her head in his direction. She sees him.

Her mouth opens, and then it moves, as though she's speaking. Now her hands in their outsize dark mittens rise slowly and cover her face. The dog sees him, too. He looks up at Billy, wanting to know what to do.

Sam has stopped. He waits for her.

After a moment, her hands come down, they drop to her sides, and he can see her face clearly now, even through the scrim of the snow--the sorrow, the relief, stamped on it.

One of them steps forward first, but later neither of them can remember who.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank the Corporation of Yaddo for a fellowship that launched me into this book, and Smith College for the Elizabeth Drew Professorship, which gave me time to work on it while I was teaching. I owe thanks also to Joy Carlin for allowing me to watch her work as a director at the Aurora Theater in Berkeley; to David Auburn, playwright, who patiently and generously answered a list of tedious questions; and to Barbara Gaines, artistic director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, for her help and cherished friendship.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sue Miller is the best-selling author of the novels
The Senator's Wife, Lost in the Forest, The World Below, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures
, and
The Good Mother;
the story collection
Inventing the Abbotts;
and the memoir
The Story of My Father
. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright (c) 2010 by Sue Miller

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Miller, Sue, [date]
The Lake Shore Limited / Sue Miller. -- 1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59355-9
1. Women dramatists--Fiction. 2. Victims of terrorism--Fiction.
3. Terrorism victims' families--Fiction. 4. Terrorism--Psychological
aspects--Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.1421444L35 2010 813'.54--dc22 2009046504

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events,
or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter 1 - Leslie

Chapter 2 - Rafe

Chapter 3 - Billy

Chapter 4 - Sam

Chapter 5 - Leslie

Chapter 6 - Rafe

Chapter 7 - Billy

Chapter 8 - Sam

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Copyright

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