Lydia Millet
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Atavists
From Lydia Millet-"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune)-comes an inventive collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals.
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We Loved It All
Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with the more-than-human world. Emerging from Millet's quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, We Loved It All marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to "the others"- the animals and plants with whom we share the earth. Accounts of fears and failures, jobs and friendships, childhood and motherhood are interspersed with exquisite accounts of non-humans and arresting meditations on the power of story to shape the future. Seeking to understand why we immerse ourselves in the domestic and immediate, turning away from more sweeping views, she examines how grand cultural myths can deny our longing for the company of nature and deprive us of its charisma and inspiration. In a thrilling distillation of experience and emotion, she evinces the familiar sense of feeling both well-meaning and powerless-a creature subject to forces that are baffling in their immensity. The fear and grief of extinction and climate change, Millet suggests, are forms of love that might be turned to resistance. We Loved It All shimmers with curiosity and laconic humour yet addresses with reverence the most urgent crises of our day. An incantatory, bewitching devotional to the vast and precious bestiary of the earth, it asks that we extend to other living beings the protection they deserve-the simple grace of continued existence.
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Transported to the 21st century, Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi grapple with the legacy of the atom bomb in this “shattering and beautiful” time travel novel (Entertainment Weekly).Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb—J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi—as they watch history’s first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945 . . . and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe.One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy—a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer to be the Second Coming.As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV’s on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons. “Possesses the nervy irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller . . . Can only be described as, well, genius.” —Vanity Fair
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How the Dead Dream
A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who's been deserted by T.'s now out–of–the–closet fatherAfter 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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Kinder der Flut
Shortlist National Book Award - ein hintergründiger Roman zur Klimakrise und dem Konflikt zwischen Boomer-Eltern und der nachfolgenden Generation. Die fünfzehnjährige Evie verbringt den Sommer mit ihrer Mittelschicht-Familie am Strand irgendwo an der Ostküste der USA. Ihre Eltern haben gemeinsam mit Freunden aus Collegezeiten ein geräumiges Sommerhaus gemietet. Während die Erwachsenen die Tage mit Alkohol, Drogen und Sex verbringen, sind ihre Kinder sich selbst überlassen und verwildern zusehends. Evie kümmert sich um ihren kleinen Bruder Jack. Er ist ein verträumter, intelligenter Junge, der sich Sorgen um die Umwelt macht und dem Tiere sehr am Herzen liegen. Von einer der Mütter hat Jack eine Kinderbibel bekommen, deren Geschichten er verschlingt und für bare Münze nimmt. Als ein verheerender Wirbelsturm aufzieht und sintflutartiger Regen alles zu zerstören droht, verlassen die Kinder das Haus, um inmitten des Chaos einen sicheren Ort zu finden. Sie schlagen ihr Lager auf einer Farm auf, wo es noch ausreichend Vorräte gibt, bis auch hier das Unheil zuschlägt. Doch am Ende werden sie es sein, die es schaffen, sich an die neue Umwelt anzupassen.
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Dinosaurs
Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbours move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny and philosophical account of Gil's unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins-what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies. Dinosaurs is both sharp-edged and tender, an emotionally moving, intellectually resonant novel that asks: In the shadow of existential threat, where does hope live?
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A Children's Bible
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel-her first since the National Book Award-longlisted Sweet Lamb of Heaven- follows a group of eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their parents at a lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their elders, who pass their days in a hedonistic stupor, the children are driven out into a chaotic landscape after a great storm descends. The story's narrator, Eve, devotes herself to the safety of her beloved little brother as events around them begin to mimic scenes from his cherished picture Bible. Millet, praised as "unnervingly talented" (San Francisco Chronicle), has produced a heartbreaking story of the legacy of climate change denial. Her parable of the coming generational divide offers a lucid vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelation.
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Fight No More
This wonderfully original collection proves once again that Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is "the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune). In Fight No More, Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting a community through the houses they inhabit. With crackling satire and surprising tenderness, Millet introduces an indelible cast of untidy teens, beastly men, and strong-minded women whose stories begin to outline the fate of one particular family being torn apart by forces they recognize but cannot control. Millet's intellect and beautiful prose deliver profound insight into human behavior, from the ordinary to the bizarre, and draws startling contrasts between house and home.
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Caresizlik Kuyusu
On öykü... Hepsinin ortak noktasi insanlar ve hayvanlar. Madonna ve vurdugu sülün, Thomas Edison ve elektrikle öldürttügü sirk fili, Nikola Tesla ve tek aski güvercin, Noam Chomsky ve torununun cöl faresi, Jimmy Carter ve ürkünc bataklik tavsani, Sharon Stone ve kocasini isiran Komodo ejderi, David Hasselhoff ve süs köpegi, George Adamson ve babalik yaptigi aslanlar, büyük tartismalar yaratan deneyleriyle meshur psikolog Harry Harlow ve kobay maymunlar ve son olarak da tuhaf, topal bir kus Lydia Milletin lafi dolandirmadan, sade bir dil kullanarak gercekle kurguyu birlestirdigi bu öyküler tokat gibi carpiyor insanin yüzüne. Her seye tepeden bakan ve kendini dünyanin hakimi sayan insan denen varligin hayvanlara uyguladigi her türden siddeti anlatiyor Caresizlik Kuyusu. Milletin kimi acimasiz, kimi dokunakli, yer yer mizaha calan öykülerini okuduktan sonra bu dünyanin sadece bize ait olmadigini farkli pencerelerden görüp kendimizi bir kez daha yadirgiyoruz. Mizah ve empati dolu bu ustalikli öyküler dogayla bilimin, insanla hayvanin, siradan insanla meshur isimlerin, gercekle kurgunun müthis carpismasina ev sahipligi yapiyor.
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Love in Infant Monkeys
Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants--all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with Hollywood celebrities. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of this fascination with famous people and pop culture.
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Ölüler Nasil Düsler
Kaybolup gidenlerin, insanligin sorumsuzca katlettigi hayatlarin dünyasina sürükleyici bir yolculuk.Ölüler Nasil Düsler girisimcilik, hirs, basari üzerine kurulu degerler sistemine cocuklugundan beri adapte olmus, bildigi yolda emin adimlarla ilerleyen T.nin altüst olus hikayesi. Hayati trafik kazasinda bir tilkinin ölümüne sebep olmasiyla kesintiye ugrayan T. tilkinin cansiz bedeninde salinan kizil kuyrugunun pesinden kosarken, sahip oldugu her seyi sorgulamaya baslayacak ve ne yaparsa yapsin bir türlü yakalayamadigi aidiyet hissini yabanin issizliginda ve tekinsizliginde bulacaktir.Unut binalari, abideleri. Karanligin uysalligina, yildizlarla gezegenler arasindaki onca isik yilina birak kendini. Sehirler insan eseriydi ama o sehirlerin öncesiyle sonrasindaki, üstündeki, altindaki, etrafindaki dünya, uyuyan bir devin düsüydü; oralarda uyuyup düs gören ezeli ve ebedi tanrinin, onun tecellisinin düsüydü. Hayatin özünde, atomda veya enerjide evreni düsleyen sey her neyse, ondan evrimin mucizeleri fiskiriyordu...Öyle bir canli cesitliligi ki istediginde vakur istediginde öfkeli, hareketleri hem kibar hem de dehsetengiz, adeta ilahi göklerin tecellisi... insan akli asla tamamina vakif olamayacakti, olmamaliydi da. Zaman ilerledikce düzlüklerden daglar yükseldi, sonsuz sevgiyle mucizeler cogaldi. O mucizeler hayvanlardi.
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Omnivores
In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Estée Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose obsession with insect taxonomy bleeds into sadism. As his schemes multiply, Estée's bedridden mother, entranced by the glow of the shopping channel, remains oblivious to the escalating chaos. Estée manages to escape her childhood home only to find new horrors awaiting her in marriage and motherhood. In a climactic twist, her traumas take form in flesh and blood-a legacy of the voracious male appetites that have haunted her life. With acerbic wit, philosophical depth, and enthralling lyricism, Omnivores cuts to the core of America's hypocrisies and anxieties, and introduced Lydia Millet as one of the wildest satirists of our time.
€ 15,50