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Ghost Lights: A Novel

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Ghost Lights: A Novel

â€œSurreal, darkly hilarious and profound.â€â€”San Francisco Chronicle
Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Halâ€”a man baffled by his wifeâ€™s obsession with her young employer, T., and haunted by the accident that paralyzed his daughter, Casey. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find T.â€”the protagonist of Lydia Milletâ€™s much-lauded novel How the Dead Dreamâ€”who has vanished in a jungle. On his trip to Central America, Hal embroils himself in a surreal tropical adventure, descending into strange and unpredictable terrain (and an unexpected affair with a beguiling German woman).

Ghost Lights is Millet at her bestâ€”beautifully written, engaging, full of dead-on insights into the heartbreaking devotion of parenthood and the charismatic oddity of human behavior. The book draws us into a darkly humorous, sometimes off-kilter world where bonds of affection remain a reliable magnetic north. Ghost Lights is a startling, comic, and surprisingly philosophical story.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-11-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393343458

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