How the Dead Dream - Couverture souple

Millet, Lydia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156035464 ISBN 13 : 9780156035460

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2009

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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."

Quatrième de couverture :

'Permeated with a dark, irreverent humour' Financial Times

An only child in a typical middle-American family, T is unusual only in his interest in, and talent for, making money. As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman.

But T's material life begins to change after he adopts a dog, meets a girl, and takes his mother in after she splits up 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...

'Odd and compelling...surprising and funny...Millet is an interesting thinker' Guardian

'Bewitching' Scotland on Sunday

'Sad, strange and as jumpily shocking as an electric fence, How The Dead Dream brilliantly evokes a barren world in which human loneliness and environmental loss are inevitable consequences when a culture values capitalism over compassion.' Metro

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0156035464
• ISBN 13: 9780156035460
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256