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Atavists - Stories

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From Lydia Millet-"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune)-comes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals.

The various "-ists" who people these linked stories-from futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologists-include a professor who's morbidly fixated on an old friend's Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incel's fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbours after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner father obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his garden.


About the author

Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.

Product details

Authors Lydia Millet, Millet Lydia
Publisher Norton
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.05.2025
 
EAN 9781324074410
ISBN 978-1-324-07441-0
No. of pages 256
Dimensions 140 mm x 20 mm x 220 mm
Weight 344 g
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Family life fiction, FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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