Magnificence by Lydia Millet Paperback Book

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Author: Lydia Millet

Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-MP3

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: Nov 2012

Genre: Fiction - Family Life

Retail Price: $59.99

Ages: 18 - UP

Synopsis

This stunning novel introduces Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband's death. Suddenly gifted her great uncle's Pasadena mansion, Susan decides to restore his extensive collection of preserved animals, tending to "the fur and feathers, the beaks, the bones and shimmering tails." Meanwhile, a menagerie of uniquely damaged humans - including a cheating husband and a chorus of eccentric elderly women - joins her in residence. Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence is the story of a woman emerging from the sudden dissolution of her family. Millet's trademark themes - evolution and extinction, children and parenthood, loss and wonder - produce a rapturous final act to the critically acclaimed cycle of novels that began with How the Dead Dream.

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