How the dead dream

a novel

1st Mariner Books ed.

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Author

Lydia Millet

Publication

2009 - Mariner Books-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL23218659M
ISBN-139780156035460
OCLC Control Number308199192
Library of Congress Control Number2009018044
LibraryThing4283346

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Goodreads6806169

Classifications

DDC813/.54
LCCPS3563.I42175 H69 2009

Description

General Adult. T. is a young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions. His orderly, upwardly mobile life is thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, whos been deserted by T.s now out-of-the-closet father. After his mothers suicide attempt and two other deaths, T. finds himself increasingly estranged from his latest project: a retirement community in the middle of the California desert. As he juggles family, business, and social responsibilities, T. begins to nurture a curious obsession with vanishing species. Soon hes living a double life, building sprawling subdivisions by day and breaking into zoos at night to be near the animals.