Dinosaurs
A Novel
11 October 2022
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
The stunning new novel from the author of the National Book Award–finalist A Children’s Bible
Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Children’s Bible (ISBN 978 0 393 86738 1) (“a blistering little classic”—Ron Charles, Washington Post), tells the story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one wall made entirely out of glass.
The story delivers attraction and love, friendship and grief. But Millet also evokes the uncanny. Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, she captures the daunting scale of human society without losing sight of the real difference one person can make in the world. Written with humour and benevolence, Dinosaurs asks big questions. Can a person be good? Can a man be good? Compellingly told, emotionally moving, intellectually rich, Dinosaurs may be Millet’s finest novel yet.
Reviews
"Tender but never sentimental, wearing its intelligence in a low-slung style, Dinosaurs is a garden of earthly delights." — Laura Mechling, Vogue
"Deceptively simple and quietly lovely, Dinosaurs is a compassionate character study of a loner who discovers community. " — Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire
"Effortlessly readable... there is something new and unusual about Dinosaurs." — Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"Quietly powerful" — Adam Begley, The Spectator
"This gentle, redemptive novel follows a damaged, trusting man as he heals through human connection and requited love… it leaves a warm afterglow and an optimism that lingers." — Sally Morris, Daily Mail
"Dinosaurs’ solidifies a new phase of Millet’s career. . . . The spaciousness of the style makes the sense of loss richer and the questions posed — what constitutes moral action, how best can we help one another — at once simpler and more profound." — Christine Smallwood, The New York Times
"Millet has perfected charged, science-based prose that takes a surgeon’s loupe to how people interact with nature." — The San Francisco Chronicle
"Dinosaurs is sharp and implacably funny; it evades the sanctimony you’d expect." — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker
Also By: Lydia Millet 
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
Hardback, 2024
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy
A Children's Bible: A Novel
Paperback, 2021
A brilliant, indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in a world whose climate and culture are unravelling.
A Children's Bible: A Novel
Hardback, 2020
A brilliant, indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in a world whose climate and culture are unravelling.
