For Love

by Sue Miller

Book Overview

With insight and intelligence, Sue Miller explores the intricacies of family and love Lottie Gardner, her brother, Cameron, and their childhood friend Elizabeth have all come together in their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060179791
• ISBN13: 9780060179793
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully written

Sue Miller manages to write very insightful novels. They are very informative about life. Compassion, angst and love, I love them all.

one of her best

this is my 4th sue miller book and it is my favorite. the main character is a flawed and complicated woman struggling to be in a committed relationship despite her fiercely independant nature. the story runs backwards in time which is really well done. it is an interesting look into people's inner worlds and how they define love.

For Love: Thought Provoking

For Love is a subdued, mature chronicle of a woman coming to terms with adult relationships. This book tells the story of Lottie, a woman haunted by her and her new husband's pasts. The tone is detached with the author perhaps purposefully distancing the readers from intense emotion. Themes in the book include love (of course) both romantic and familial, identity, loyalty, maturation, and conscious living. It is not a tale packed with action-- though it decidedly lures us with a "what will ever happen?" plot thread. Sue Miller nimbly and impressively weaves the plot back and forth through time and through the emotional state of the protaganist (Lottie). It is a first person account told in third person (hence the distancing). This device may be used to emulate the lack of connection and knowledge Lottie has with and of herself. This book presents the simple unfolding of a story completed with brilliant technique and subtlety. Would I recommend this book? Yes. It contains simple life truths which provoke soul searching and contemplation. To whom would I recommend it? Patient readers. Those willing to take the time to meander with the author and the protangonist through the often stream of consciousness narration. Was this book life changing for me? Yes. It helped me wrap my mind around two ideas that while very intuitive seemed very fresh and enrichming for me: 1) When we love people, that love will either stretch to include all different versions of them as they grow and change, or it won't... lasting love takes work in that regard. How is this work done? This leads me to idea # 2) Sometimes we have to pretend to love the changed version of a person we once loved (or pretend to embrace the true nature person who we idealized as something else) until that love can adapt and become a reality. Will this book change the way I live? It will change my perspective. If the book's philosophy is correct and thought follow actions... then yes... it will have changed my life. I enjoyed this book for it's unlikely marriage of depth and simplicity.

I always enjoy Sue Miller's Novels

I have to say that I always enjoy Sue Miller's Novels. I always tend to feel close to the main characters. I trust her to give me the details of all the character's lives. Ok Sue if you read this could you please write me at Babz@Aol.com and tell me about Lottie. I am not sure what I was supposed to get from the end. Has Lottie found contentment with her life?I really enjoyed the book but I want to hear it from you. Is Lottie totally ok?Ok now to all you readers I am gonna tell you- my favorite writers are Sue Miller,Anne Tyler and Wally Lamb. hat do you guys think? Write me at Babz@aol.com and let me know what you think. Family pictures was one of my favorites. I am just about to start reading "THE DISTINDUISHED GUEST" AND I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT.

Insightful and subtle

A great book with refreshing characters. I love Sue Miller and For Love is terrific!