Dinosaurs

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction.

Dinosaurs is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil's unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins--what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies. In the shadow of existential threat, where does hope live?

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/11/2022
ISBN: 9781324021469
Pages: 240

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 3
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2022
Booklist 08/01/2022 pg. 19