Name: How the Dead Dream

Author: Lydia Millet
Year: 2007
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Adventure, Animals

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9780156035460
0156035464
1593761848
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 individualism 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."
This book is part of the "Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"The Broken Road"
First published in 2013
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"Magnificence"
First published in 2012
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"Ghost Lights"
First published in 2011
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"Between the Woods and the Water"
First published in 1986
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"A Time of Gifts"
First published in 1977
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