Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet (classic fiction txt) 📕

—Josh Emmons, New York Times Book Review

“Thrilling, witty, and philosophical.”

—Kimberly Cutter, Marie Claire

“[An] odd and wonderful novel.”

—Brock Clarke, Boston Globe

“With its linguistic and plot pranks and underlying moral complexity, Ghost Lights recalls the laconic, Lacanian novels of Paul Auster.”

—Carolyn Cooke, San Francisco Chronicle

“Breathtaking descriptions not only of nature but of everyday minutiae mixed in with just enough drop-dead satire.”

—Karen Brady, Buffalo News

“One of America’s most daring writers.”

—J. Peder Zane, News & Observer

“Millet’s got a visionary sensibility, marked by a voice that is by turns biting and dark.”

—David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times

“Millet [is] a writer of encompassing empathy and imaginative lyricism and a satirist of great wit and heart.”

—Donna Seaman, Booklist

“If Kurt Vonnegut were still alive, he would be extremely jealous.”

—James Hannaham, Village Voice

The author thanks Maria Massie, Tom Mayer, Denise Scarfi,

Amy Robbins, Nancy Palmquist, Don Rifkin, Tara Powers, Anna Oler,

Ingsu Liu, and David High for all that they have done.

Copyright © 2011 by Lydia Millet

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First published as a Norton paperback 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Millet, Lydia, 1968–

Ghost lights : a novel / Lydia Millet. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-393-08171-8 (hardcover)

I. Title.

PS3563.I42175G49 2011

813'.54—dc23

2011026502

ISBN 978-0-393-34345-8 pbk.

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