“Starred review. Millet brings her searching, bitterly funny, ecologically attuned trilogy of Los Angeles–based novels (How the Dead Dream, 2008; Ghost Lights, 2011) to a haunting crescendo. …Millet is extraordinarily agile and powerful here, moving from light to shadow like a stalking lioness….”
“…draws a detailed map of the healing process of an adulterous wife who suddenly finds herself a widow…. The deeply honest, beautiful meditations on love, grief and guilt give way to a curlicued comic-romantic mystery complete with a secret basement and assorted eccentrics.”
“There’s much to explore in Magnificence, which is ambitious, often funny and deliciously provocative. One needn’t have read the entire series to be consumed by its pleasures, but by the time you reach its beautiful end, considerable comfort lies in the existence of two more novels in which to delight in Millet’s writing and imagination.”
“Starred review. [A] refreshingly buoyant and unsentimental tale… Millet’s spare but powerful prose… calls to mind the work of J. M. Coetzee.”
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Magnificence : a novel / Lydia Millet. — 1st ed.
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ISBN 978-0-393-08170-1
1. Widows—Fiction. 2. Taxidermy—Fiction. 3. Life change events—Fiction. 4. Inheritance and succession—California—Fiction. 5. Shared housing—Fiction. I. Title.
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