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Stories
Soft Skull Press
October 2009
On Sale: October 1, 2009
208 pages
ISBN: 1593762526
EAN: 9781593762520
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Fiction Family Life
Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants — all
have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with
celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David
Hasselhoff. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy
communions to run a stake through the heart of our
fascination with famous people and pop culture. While in so
much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as
author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in
Millet’s ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their
actions, the animals in Millet’s spiraling fictional riffs
and flounces show up their humans as bloated with
foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force
Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she
shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads
newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales.
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