Lydia Millet

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Boston, The United States

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http://www.lydiamillet.net/

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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), Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (Soft Skull, 2005), and Ghost Lights (...more

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Books by Lydia Millet

Average rating: 3.56 · 2,545 ratings · 594 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories 3.44 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	How the Dead Dream 3.54 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Oh Pure and Radiant Heart 3.65 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	My rating:
	My Happy Life 3.66 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ghost Lights 3.19 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	George Bush, Dark Prince of Love 3.40 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Everyone's Pretty 3.38 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Omnivores 3.38 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Fires Beneath the Sea 3.25 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Magnificence : A Novel 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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“It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

tags: empathy

13 people liked it

“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

tags: animals , dogs , page-185

11 people liked it

“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

tags: page-57

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