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Book Review of While I Was Gone

While I Was Gone
While I Was Gone
Author: Sue Miller
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


The author takes on an, I think, "obvious" theme that most people run across in their lives and she doesn't make it a cliche. This isn't some aging guy's mid-life crisis but that guy and the heroine/narrator have something in common: The memory of youth is so alluring that they try to recapture it by consorting with people and things they used to do, fast cars and old lovers, running away to a time when they had energy, beauty and sex appeal. Why do I think it's a shared if not wholly universal experience? Even boring old I identified with it.