Magnificence A Novel [Paperback]

Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation (Scott Timberg,?[Millets prose, which is both sensitive and strange... creates a thick atmosphere that immediately pulls the reader deep into this saga of love, death, sex, and taxidermy....[W]arm, moving, funny, earnest, hopeful, honest, and engaged in a way at odds with current literary fashion&Millets lush prose has you in her thrall from the start.Millet is simply an incredible writer. Her prose displays the exceedingly rare combination of philosophical introspection with poetic grace and flourish.[A] novel of ideas or philosophy, disguised as a portrait of one womans midlife upheaval.Starred review. [An] elegant meditation on death and what it means to be alone, even youre not&? A dazzling prose stylist, Millet elevates her story[,] &exploring grief and love as though they were animals to be stuffed, burrowing in deep and scooping out the innermost layers.Starred review. Millet brings her searching, bitterly funny, ecologically attuned trilogy of Los Angelesbased novels (... 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.Theres much to explore inStarred review. [A] refreshingly buoyant and unsentimental tale&Millets spare but powerful prose&calls to mind the work of J. M. Coetzee.A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy.