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Author Millet, Lydia, 1968-

Title How the dead dream : a novel / Lydia Millet.

Imprint Berkeley [CA] : Counterpoint, ©2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F MILLET    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION MILLET    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  MILLET, LYDIA    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F MILLET    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-MIL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MILLET, L    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F MILLET, L.    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  MILLET    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MILLETT    Check Shelf
Description 244 pages ; 22 cm
Summary 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.
Subject Real estate developers -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Endangered species -- Fiction.
Extinction (Biology) -- Fiction.
Endangered species. (OCoLC)fst00909658
Extinction (Biology) (OCoLC)fst00918969
Human-animal relationships. (OCoLC)fst00963482
Loss (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01002621
Mothers and sons. (OCoLC)fst01027007
Real estate developers. (OCoLC)fst01090964
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Other Form: Online version: Millet, Lydia, 1968- How the dead dream. Berkeley [CA] : Counterpoint, ©2008 (OCoLC)608422455
ISBN 9781593761844
1593761848
9780434018406 (pbk.)
0434018406 (pbk.)
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