Lydia Millet
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Born in Boston in 1968, Lydia Millet moved to Toronto, Canada with her Egyptologist father and teacher/librarian mother two years later. She received a Master's in Environmental Policy at Duke University and moved to New York in 1996, where she worked as a fundraiser for the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 1999 she went freelance and moved to Tucson, where she now lives and writes full-time on an isolated spread in the desert. She is the author of Omnivores (Algonquin, 1996), George Bush, Dark Prince of Love (Scribner, 2000), My Happy Life (Henry Holt, 2002; Soft Skull Press 2007), a winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, Everyones Pretty (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (Soft Skull, 2005)"
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet avg rating 3.65 — 147 ratings — published 2005 4 editions |
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How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet avg rating 3.63 — 142 ratings — published 2007 5 editions |
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My Happy Life: A Novel by Lydia Millet avg rating 3.60 — 91 ratings — published 2002 3 editions |
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GEORGE BUSH, DARK PRINCE OF LOVE: A Presidential Romance by Lydia Millet avg rating 3.39 — 49 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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Everyone's Pretty: A Novel by Lydia Millet avg rating 3.30 — 37 ratings — published 2005 |
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Omnivores by Lydia Millet avg rating 3.25 — 24 ratings — published 1996 5 editions |
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Electric Literature: #1 by Michael Cunningham, T Cooper, Lydia Millet, Jim Shepard, Diana Wagman avg rating 4.44 — 18 ratings — published 2009 2 editions |
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Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published 2009 |
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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Lydia Millet on tour for the book "How the Dead Dream: A Novel"
Author appearance, November 19, 2009 07:30PM
Solas Bar, 232 East 9th Street, 00000, New York, NY, The United States
Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants all have shared spotlights ...more
Author appearance, November 19, 2009 07:30PM
Solas Bar, 232 East 9th Street, 00000, New York, NY, The United States
Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants all have shared spotlights ...more
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"The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept?
Such a house could even be the whole world."
— Lydia Millet (How the Dead Dream)
Such a house could even be the whole world."
— Lydia Millet (How the Dead Dream)
"What was a face on television but a code, and what was the difference between these faces but a realignment of line and color to shift among signals? If he grasped deeply this language of symbols, grasped it beneath the surface, he could course through the currents of authority as they coursed through him like heat or the tremble of cold."
— Lydia Millet (How the Dead Dream)
— Lydia Millet (How the Dead Dream)
"What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born."
— Lydia Millet (How the Dead Dream)
— Lydia Millet (How the Dead Dream)
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