How the Dead Dream

Lydia Millet is the author of several previous novels including the gloriously titled George Bush: Dark Prince of Love, and My Happy Life, winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. During the early 1990's she was a sub-editor at magazines such as Hustler, Busty Beauties and S.W.A.T. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and daughter.

An only child in a typical middle-American family, T is unusual only in his interest in, and talent for, making money. As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman. 
 
But T's material life begins to change after he adopts a dog, meets a girl, and takes his mother in after she splits up with his father. But when events conspire to leave T isolated again he starts to lose faith in people and civilisation and turns to nature instead, developing a strange and powerful obsession with endangered animals...

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July 16, 1945. The world's first atomic mushroom cloud rises above New Mexico desert. At the moment of detonation, the men responsible for the bomb, the physicists Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, suddenly find themselves thrown forward in time to the year 2003. 
 
As they adjust to life in the 'future', Ann, a librarian, and her doting husband, Ben, befriend them. How the charismatic, time-travelling scientists affect both modern America and the marriage of these two ordinary people, is the subject of Lydia Millet's heroically mischievous tragicomedy. 
 
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

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