![]() ![]() ![]() Hal is a mild mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. ![]() 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.’Ī funny and haunting new novel from ‘one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation’ Los Angeles Times. 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. 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. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. 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. As a wealthy, young real estate developer in Los Angeles, T. ![]()
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