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Atavists

By Lydia Millet

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Atavists

By Lydia Millet

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From Lydia Millet-"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune)-comes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals. The various "-ists" who people these linked stories-from futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologists-include a professor who's morbidly fixated on an old friend's Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incel's fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbours after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner father obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his garden.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
230
Release Date:
2025-04-22
Publication Date:
2025-05-31
Publisher:
Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1324074418
ISBN13:
9781324074410
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
342 g
Height:
144 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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