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Title	:	Family Pictures
Author	:	Sue Miller
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 188 pages
Published	:	1990 by Harper & Row
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Family

Family Pictures

Sue Miller

Hardcover | Pages: 188 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 4947 Users | 154 Reviews

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Spanning forty years, Family Pictures follows the conflict between husband and wife, over a beautiful autistic child. Randall is both angel and demon. His father, David, a coolly rational psychiatrist, wants him placed in an institution; his mother, Lainey, insists on keeping him at home. Yet it is not just David and Lainey who are struggling to come to terms with a difficult and unpredictable child; there are five other children in the family, each of them coping with the dramas and rifts surrounding them, each of them affected by Randall.

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Original Title:	Family Pictures
ISBN:	0575403217 (ISBN13: 9780575403215)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1990)

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Another family story -- a strong and confident family in 1948 of mother (slightly eccentric), father (sarcastic, always cool-tempered), a boy, a girl. Then the third child is born, severely disabled. The family spends the next 40 years trying to survive upheaval, heartbreak, pain. Summary: "Everyone around here's under a lot of strain right now. No one has a lot of resilience. The edges are frayed." This was painful to read. I kept thinking that there had to be a better way to deal with the

This is the first of Sue Miller's books that I've read. It was a good book but it fell short of a full five stars for me.It was a very real picture of a family broken by mental illness. I applaud Miller for her extremely believable portrait of the Eberhardt family which being torn apart by a child with autism. The family struggles through accusations from other each other, failing marriages, disruptive children, war, and so on. Based on how Miller describes these events in the lives of the

As long as it took me to get going, in the end I wished the book wouldn't end soon.It rang true more than once.And what an end.Life surprises us, always.

Didn't finish anybody's stories, except Randall.

I like Sue Miller, but this is not her best work. She is a fabulous writer, and that really shines through in some sections of the book. The shifting narration does not always work (though when it does, it's quite good). I was left feeling that the character motivations were missing here - so I never knew why anyone did the things they did, and therefore never really connected with them in any meaningful way. (Although, the last chapter goes a teeny way toward ameliorating this - but it's too

You will think this is the story of YOUR family life.

This is not an easy book because of the plot and the emotions that go along with it. The family in the story has an autistic son, a psychiatrist father, a mother whose emotions bounce around, and five other children who have challenges too. Very well written--Sue Miller is a great writer--but the book will be difficult for some to finish.