Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet Online

Cloth; Used. Fine. Dust Jacket: Fine. Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet. First Edition First Printing. Ex-Library Copy. Satire.

Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan s employer, T.—the protagonist of Lydia Millet s much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream—who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain.

Salon raved that Millet s writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself. In Ghost Lights, she combines her characteristic wit and a sharp eye for the weirdness that governs human (and nonhuman) interactions. With the scathing satire and tender honesty of Sam Lipsyte and a dark, quirky, absurdist style reminiscent of Joy Williams, Millet has created a comic, startling, and surprisingly philosophical story about idealism and disillusionment, home and not home, and the singular, heartbreaking devotion of parenthood.