As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. 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.
The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. 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.
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. 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."
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Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. An only child in a typical middle-American family, T is unusual only in his interest in, and talent for, making money. But when events conspire to leave T isolated again he starts to lose faith in people and civilisation and turns to nature instead, developing a strange and powerful obsession with endangered animals. Seller Inventory # B9781784700638
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Book Description Condition: New. As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman. But T s material life begins to change after he adopts a dog, meets a girl, and takes his mother in after she splits up with his father.Klappentex. Seller Inventory # 596850491