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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The English Department presents
a reading by acclaimed novelist* Lydia Millet*, 12:30 p.m., Thursday,
March 6, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, room 319.<br><br>
Lydia Millet is the author of six novels, most recently/ How the Dead
Dream/ (Counterpoint January 2008). Her fifth/, Oh Pure and Radiant
Heart/, was shortlisted for Britain's Arthur C. Clarke Prize, and an
earlier novel,/ My Happy Life/, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction.
Also an essayist and critic, Millet lives in the desert outside Tucson,
Arizona, where she works as a writer and editor at the nonprofit Center
for Biological Diversity.<br><br>
She will be reading from her new novel,/ How the Dead Dream/, the first
book in a trilogy, which introduces T., a young developer with a
reverence for money and the institutions of capital. Always restrained
and solitary, he has just fallen in love for the first time when his
orderly, upwardly mobile life is thrown into chaos by the appearance of
his unbalanced mother, who comes to live with him after his father's
sudden desertion. In the wake of a series of devastating losses, T.
begins to nurture a curious obsession with vanishing species, and is soon
breaking into zoos at night to be with animals that are the last of their
kind.<br><br>
-- For More Information:<br>
Pericles Lewis<br>
Professor of English and Comparative Literature<br>
Yale University<br>
P. O. Box 208299, New Haven CT 06520-8299<br>
Address for courier/on-campus: 451 College St., Room 213<br>
Telephone: 203-432-2732<br>
Fax: 203-432-0136<br>
Website:
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https://webspace.yale.edu/pericleslewis/</a></blockquote>
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