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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...
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...
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"The finest book yet by one of my favourite contemporary American writers" (Jonathan Lethem)
"Permeated with a dark, irreverent humour" (Financial Times)
"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)
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"Permeated with a dark, irreverent humour" (Financial Times)
"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)
A brilliant, moving satire about human loneliness and endangered species, from one of America's most exciting voices.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2015
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- ISBN 13 9781784700638
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