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How the Dead Dream

By Lydia Millet

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How the Dead Dream

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As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people — from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers — but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. to question his business pursuits for the first time in his life, to take a chance at falling in love, and finally to begin breaking into zoos across the country, where he finds solace in the presence of animals on the brink of extinction. A beautiful, heart-wrenching tale, How the Dead Dream is also a riveting commentary on inidividualism and community in the modern social landscape and how the lives of people and animals are deeply entwined. Judged by many — including the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post Book World — to be Millet's best work to date, it is, as Time Out New York perfectly states: "This beautiful writer's most ambitious novel yet, a captivating balancing act between full-bodied satire and bighearted insight."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2009-09-15
Publication Date:
2009-09-01
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0156035464
ISBN13:
9780156035460
Weight:
327 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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