Bücher von Lydia Millet

Shortlist National Book Award - ein hintergründiger Roman zur Klimakrise und dem Konflikt zwischen Boomer-Eltern und der nachfolgenden Generation. Die fünfzehnjährige Evie verbringt den Sommer mit ihrer Mittelschicht-Familie am Strand irgendwo an der Ostküste der USA. Ihre Eltern haben gemeinsam mit Freunden aus Collegezeiten ein geräumiges Sommerhaus gemietet. Während die Erwachsenen die Tage mit Alkohol, Drogen und Sex verbringen, sind ihre Kinder sich selbst überlassen und verwildern zusehends. Evie kümmert sich um ihren kleinen Bruder Jack. Er ist ein verträumter, intelligenter Junge, der sich Sorgen um die Umwelt macht und dem Tiere sehr am Herzen liegen. Von einer der Mütter hat Jack eine Kinderbibel bekommen, deren Geschichten er verschlingt und für bare Münze nimmt. Als ein verheerender Wirbelsturm aufzieht und sintflutartiger Regen alles zu zerstören droht, verlassen die Kinder das Haus, um inmitten des Chaos einen sicheren Ort zu finden. Sie schlagen ihr Lager auf einer Farm auf, wo es noch ausreichend Vorräte gibt, bis auch hier das Unheil zuschlägt. Doch am Ende werden sie es sein, die es schaffen, sich an die neue Umwelt anzupassen.

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction.Her exquisite new novel is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbours move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny and philosophical account of Gil's unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins-what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies.Dinosaurs is both sharp-edged and tender, an emotionally moving, intellectually resonant novel that asks: In the shadow of existential threat, where does hope live?

Oppenheimer's first full day at the motel was devoted to television. He located the remote on the bedside table, where it sat beside the enigmatic telephone with its sheet of intricate numeric instructions, and eventually by pressing the button marked power discovered its function. -from OH PURE AND RADIANT HEARTIn Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, the three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb-Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi-mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly sixty years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert in 1945. One by one, they are discovered by a shy librarian, who takes them in and devotes herself to them. Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament campaign that takes them from Hiroshima to Nevada to the United Nations. Along the way, they acquire a billionaire pothead benefactor and a growing convoy of RVs carrying groupies, drifters, activists, former Deadheads, New Age freeloaders, and religious fanatics.In this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia Millet brings us an apocalyptic fable that marries the personal to the political, confronts the longing for immortality with the desire for redemption, and evokes both the beauty and the tragedy of the nuclear sublime.

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Children's Bible (ISBN 978 0 393 86738 1) ("a blistering little classic"-Ron Charles, Washington Post), tells the story of an Arizona man's relationship with the family next door, whose house has one wall made entirely out of glass.The story delivers attraction and love, friendship and grief. But Millet also evokes the uncanny. Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, she captures the daunting scale of human society without losing sight of the real difference one person can make in the world. Written with humour and benevolence, Dinosaurs asks big questions. Can a person be good? Can a man be good? Compellingly told, emotionally moving, intellectually rich, Dinosaurs may be Millet's finest novel yet.