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How the Dead Dream
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Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9780156035460
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.90 Depth: 5.20
Language: English
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.
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