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  • Published: 9 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784700638
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $25.00

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...

  • Published: 9 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784700638
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $25.00

About the author

Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet is the author of several previous novels including the gloriously titled George Bush: Dark Prince of Love, and My Happy Life, winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. During the early 1990's she was a sub-editor at magazines such as Hustler, Busty Beauties and S.W.A.T. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and daughter.