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Also by Lydia Millet:

Fair Ones, October 2026
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LOVE IN INFANT MONKEYS
By: Lydia Millet

Stories

Soft Skull Press
October 2009
On Sale: October 1, 2009
208 pages
ISBN: 1593762526
EAN: 9781593762520
Paperback
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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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Studio 360 - December 19, 2009