How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet Paperback Book

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Author: Lydia Millet

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: Sep 2009

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $16.95

Pages: 256

Synopsis

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 spiritual transformation that leads T. to question his financial pursuits for the first time in his life, to finally fall in love with a woman, and to begin sneaking into the local zoo, where he finds solace in the presence of endangered species.

A beautiful, heart-wrenching tale, How the Dead Dream is also a riveting commentary on community in the modern suburban landscape and how the lives of animals are affected by it. 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.'

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