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A dark comedic work about a young entrepreneur's passage from self-absorbed avarice into humanity follows the adventures of ambitious real estate developer T., whose upwardly mobile life is thrown into chaos by his mother's suicide attempt, his father's late-in-life homosexuality, and a project involving a desert-region retirement community.
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Review:
"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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- PublisherSoft Skull Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1933368810
- ISBN 13 9781933368818
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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