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Magnificence
Lydia Millet, Paperback$13.56
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This stunning new novel presents Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband’s death and the dissolution of her family. Embarking on a new phase in her life after inheriting her uncle’s sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy, Susan decides to restore the neglected, moth-eaten animal mounts, tending to “the fur and feathers, the beaks, the bones and shimmering tails.” Meanwhile an equally derelict human menagerie–including an unfaithful husband and a chorus of eccentric old women–joins her in residence.
In a setting both wondrous and absurd, Susan defends her legacy from freeloading relatives and explores the mansion’s unknown spaces. Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence explores evolution and extinction, children and parenthood, loss and revelation. The result is the rapturous final act to the critically acclaimed cycle of novels that began with How the Dead Dream.
Description
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Lydia Millet
Published: 11/11/2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393346855
Pages: 255
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.54w x 0.70d
Additional information
Weight | 0.5 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.3 × 5.54 × 0.7 in |
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