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HOW THE DEAD DREAM (SIGNED, DATED & NYC)
by Lydia Millet
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1593761848
- ISBN 13
- 9781593761844
- Seller
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Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HOW THE DEAD DREAM by LYDIA MILLET (2007). SIGNED. HARDCOVER. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED, with "11-16-12" and "NYC" written by the author to full title page. Brand New, FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing copy. Beautiful condition. Never Owned. NOT Remaindered, NOT Inscribed, NOT Ex-library, NOT Book Club Edition, NOT Price clipped, or Read. Opened only to Sign. The book has no flaws. Not signed on a tipped-in page or a bookplate as many copies of her books are. How Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Her fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was short-listed for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her 2009 collection of short stories entitled Love in Infant Monkeys was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her 2011 novel Ghost Lights, a New York Times Notable Book, was the second in a cycle of novels that began with How the Dead Dream in 2008. Her novel, Magnificence (2012), which is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, completes the cycle. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED, with "11-16-12" and "NYC" written by the author to full title page. No inscription; signature plus 11-16-12 and NYC only. From an event in New York City on November 16, 2012. FREE: A copy of the event flyer and a copy of five book reviews are included. Publication date: December 28, 2007. ISBN: 978-1593-7618-44. BS000948.1
Synopsis
As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people — from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers — but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. to question his business pursuits for the first time in his life, to take a chance at falling in love, and finally to begin breaking into zoos across the country, where he finds solace in the presence of animals on the brink of extinction. A beautiful, heart-wrenching tale, How the Dead Dream is also a riveting commentary on inidividualism and community in the modern social landscape and how the lives of people and animals are deeply entwined. Judged by many — including the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post Book World — to be Millet's best work to date, it is, as Time Out New York perfectly states: "This beautiful writer's most ambitious novel yet, a captivating balancing act between full-bodied satire and bighearted insight."
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS0000948.1X
- Title
- HOW THE DEAD DREAM (SIGNED, DATED & NYC)
- Author
- Lydia Millet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1593761848
- ISBN 13
- 9781593761844
- Publisher
- Counterpoint; American First edition (January 25, 2008)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- Jan. 25, 2008
- Pages
- 256
- Size
- 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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Charm City Books
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About Charm City Books
I sell mostly Modern First Editions. Most of my inventory is Hand Signed First Edition/First Printing Hardcovers. I also carry a collection of Brand New & Like New, Signed and Unsigned Franklin Library & Easton Press Books. I will accept offers on any book I have. If your offer is accepted, you are committed to buy. I will then reduce the price of the item ON THIS SITE so you can purchase the item or book on this site using their check-out...
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