9781593761844 - How the Dead Dream: A Novel von Millet, Lydia (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. American First. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Second printing of the first edition. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy with price ($24.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Tiny bump on foot of spine (as pictured) on an otherwise stunning copy. This copy has been SIGNED by Millet on the title page (as pictured). Millet was shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Award, for A Children's Bible. F300A. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Millet proves no less lyrical, haunting or deliciously absurd in her brilliant sixth novel than in her fifth, the acclaimed Oh Pure & Radiant Heart. As a boy, T. keeps his distance from others, including his loving but vacant parents, preferring to explore his knack for turning a dollar. Before long, he's a wealthy but lonely young real estate developer in L.A. Just after he adopts, on impulse, a dog from the pound, his mother shows up and announces that T.'s father has left her. His mother, increasingly erratic, moves in; meanwhile, T. finally meets and falls in love with Beth, a nice girl who understands him, but a cruel twist of fate soon leaves him alone again. As his mother continues to unravel, T. finds unexpected consolation in endangered animals at the zoo, and he starts breaking into pens after hours to be closer to them. The jungle quest that results, while redolent of Heart of Darkness and Don Quixote, takes readers to a place entirely Millet's own, leavened by very funny asides. At once an involving character study and a stunning meditation on loss--planetary and otherwise--Millet's latest unfolds like a beautiful, disturbing dream."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review. "Suffused with lyrical elegies for extinct species as well as caustic, cartoonish portraits of the people responsible for their extinction, HOW THE DEAD DREAM synthesizes the two styles of Millet's fiction--the harrowing and the madcap--with a new elegance. The chapters are longer, the narrative voice more coherent, the outrage in her fiction achieves an unprecedented depth of focus."--San Francisco Chronicle. "For a long time, Lydia Millet has had the makings of a great novelist. At least two of her five previous books have hinted at how far her gifts might take her, but her latest, HOW THE DEAD DREAM, brings all her strengths into an impressive balance. She has pulled off her funniest, most shrewdly thoughtful and touching novel. If Kurt Vonnegut were still alive, he would be extremely jealous."-- Village Voice. "Millet, a writer of encompassing empathy and imaginative lyricism, and a satirist of great wit and heart, takes readers on an intelligently conceived and devastating journey into the heart of extinction. Millet's extraordinary leap of a novel warns us that as the splendor and mystery of the natural world is replaced by the human-made, our species faces a lonely and spiritually impoverished future."--Donna Seaman, Booklist. Pristine hardcover w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact, dark/bright-as-new jacket.

Zustand: Very good.