Ghost Lights A Novel

Name: Ghost Lights A Novel
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ISBN: 9780393343458

ISBN-10: 0393343456

ISBN-13: 9780393343458

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lydia Millet

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Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal—a man baffled by his wife’s obsession with her young employer, T., and haunted by the accident that paralyzed his daughter, Casey. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find T.—the protagonist of Lydia Millet’s much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream—who has vanished in a jungle. On his trip to Central America, Hal embroils himself in a surreal tropical adventure, descending into strange and unpredictable terrain (and an unexpected affair with a beguiling German woman).Ghost Lights is Millet at her best—beautifully written, engaging, full of dead-on insights into the heartbreaking devotion of parenthood and the charismatic…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.24" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Lydia Millet is the author of Omnivores and George Bush, Dark Prince of Love. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and New York City.