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Ghost Lights: A Novel $24.95 A funny and haunting new novel from “one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation” (Los Angeles Times).Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan’s employer, T.-the protagonist of Lydia Millet’s much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream-who has… |
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Ghost Lights by Millet, Lydia Edition , 1 $22.99 Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan’s employer, T.?the protagonist of Lydia Millet’s much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream?who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain.Salon raved that Millet’s writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself. In Ghost Lights, she combines her characteristic wit and a sharp eye for the weirdness that governs human (and nonhuman) interactions. With the scathing satire and tender honesty of Sam Lipsyte and a dark, quirky, absurdist style reminiscent of Joy Williams, Millet has created a comic, startling, and surprisingly philosophical story about idealism and disillusionment, home and not home, and the singular, heartbreaking devotion of parenthood. |
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Lydia $159 Lydia |
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Everyone’s Pretty by Millet, Lydia Edition , 0 $13.99 Written by the acclaimed author of My Happy Life and George Bush, Dark Prince of Love, Everyone’s Pretty is a savagely funny novel about the search for God, sex, and significance. When he’s not drinking himself into a stupor, stealing credit cards to pay for sex, or plotting his fame with a horny midget, Los Angeles pornographer Dean Decetes entertains messianic delusions and freeloads wantonly from his spinster sister. Distancing herself from her deadbeat sibling, Bucella obsesses over the quasi-religious love notes she writes to her boss and reassures a coterie of codependent coworkers, including a hygiene-phobic Christian Scientist and a depressive blonde bombshell named Alice. Next door, a teenage math genius has endured humiliation at the hands of her mother and is running away from home. She hightails it to a local dive and hooks up with Dean’s editor from the porno magazine. Told from five hilariously bizarre points of view, this novel serves up a fabulously florid cast of characters, many inspired by author Lydia Millet’s two-year stint working at Larry Flynt Publications. |
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The Fires Beneath the Sea by Millet, Lydia Edition , 0 $18.99 Kirkus ReviewsBest Books of 2011Cara's mother has disappeared. Her father isn't talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family's Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was—and that the world has much stranger, much older inhabitants than they had imagined.With help from Cara's best friend Hayley, the three embark on a quest that will lead them from the Cape's hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. They're soon on the front lines of an ancient battle between good and evil, with the terrifying pouring man close on their heels.Packed with memorable characters and thrilling imagery, Lydia Millet weaves a page-turning adventure even as she brings the seaside world of Cape Cod to magical life. The first in a series of books about the Sykes children,The Fires Beneath the Seais a rip-cracking middle-grade novel that will make perfect beach reading—for readers of any age!The Fires Beneath the Seais the first novel in the Dissenters series. The second novel,The Shimmers in the Nightwill be published in 2012.Lydia Milletis the author of six previous novels, includingMy Happy Life, which won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, andOh Pure and Radiant Heart, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her short story collectionLove in Infant Monkeyswas a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. |
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How the Dead Dream by Millet, Lydia Edition , 0 $21.49 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, who’s been deserted by T.’s now out-of-the-closet father. After his mother’s 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 he’s living a double life, building sprawling subdivisions by day and breaking into zoos at night to be near the animals. A series of calamities forces T. to a tropical island, where he takes a Conrad-esque journey up a river into the remote jungle. Millet’s devastating wit, psychological acuity, and remarkable empathy for flawed humankind contend with her vision of a world slowly murdering itself. |
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Millet, Lydia Edition , 0 $14.99 Oppenheimer's first full day at the motel was devoted to television. He located the remote on the bedside table, where it sat beside the enigmatic telephone with its sheet of intricate numeric instructions, and eventually by pressing the button marked power discovered its function.-from OH PURE AND RADIANT HEARTIn Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, the three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb-Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi-mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly sixty years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert in 1945. One by one, they are discovered by a shy librarian, who takes them in and devotes herself to them.Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament campaign that takes them from Hiroshima to Nevada to the United Nations. Along the way, they acquire a billionaire pothead benefactor and a growing convoy of RVs carrying groupies, drifters, activists, former Deadheads, New Age freeloaders, and religious fanatics.In this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia Millet brings us an apocalyptic fable that marries the personal to the political, confronts the longing for immortality with the desire for redemption, and evokes both the beauty and the tragedy of the nuclear sublime. |
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My Happy Life by Millet, Lydia Edition , 0 $12.99 At the opening of My Happy Life, the unnamed narrator of this bittersweet fictional memoir has been abandoned in a locked room of a defunct hospital for the mentally ill, where she looks back on her harsh life with extraordinary insight and unexpected joy. |
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Love in Infant Monkeys by Millet, Lydia Edition , 0 $16.49 The author offers a Pandora’s box of astringent and sentimental confections through a collection of stories, each featuring that pairing that society seems to both love and loathe: celebrities and animals. |
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Ghost $6 Ghost |
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No Ghost $89 No Ghost |
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Kaytee Millet Spray $2.79 Kaytee Millet Spray |
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Lydia Och Sömngångaren $149 Lydia Och Sömngångaren |
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Sköna Helena (Millet Danielle) $129 Sköna Helena (Millet Danielle) |
