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How the Dead Dream

An only child in a typical middle-American family, T is unusual only in his interest in, and talent for, making money. 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. 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...

About Lydia Millet

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  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9781784700638
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 181g
  • Price: £15.99