[Yale-readings] 3-6, 12:30pm: Novelist Lydia Millet, LC 319

[Nancy Kuhl]

>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>-- For More Information:
>Pericles Lewis
>Professor of English and Comparative Literature
>Yale University
>P. O. Box 208299, New Haven CT 06520-8299
>Address for courier/on-campus: 451 College St., Room 213
>Telephone: 203-432-2732
>Fax: 203-432-0136
>Website: https://webspace.yale.edu/pericleslewis/

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