How the Dead Dream

How the Dead Dream

by Lydia Millet (Author)

Synopsis

An only child in a typical middle-American family, T's first love is money, and specifically the faces on the bills - Jackson, Hamilton, and Lincoln. As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, playing the responsible capitalist individual, and set up a successful real estate business. But T's material life begins to change after he adopts a dog meets a girl, and takes his mother in after she splits with his father. But when events conspire to leave T isolated again he starts to lose faith in people and civilisation and turns to nature instead, developing a strange and powerful obsession with endangered animals...How the Dead Dream is a brilliant, moving novel about human loneliness and environmental loss, from one of America's most exciting literary voices.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 04 Sep 2008

ISBN 10: 0434018406
ISBN 13: 9780434018406
Book Overview: An involving character study and a stunning meditation on loss

Author Bio
Lydia Millet is the author of several previous novels including the gloriously titled George Bush: Dark Prince of Love, My Happy Life, winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, shortlisted for the 2007 Arthur C Clarke Prize. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and daughter.