Atavists (eBook)

Stories

Lydia Millet (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
240 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-07442-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025 A Harper's Bazaar "e;Best Book Coming Out This Spring"e; Pick One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2025A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of short fiction from "e;the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves"e; (Chicago Tribune).The word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia Millet offers overlapping tales of urges ranging from rage to jealousy to yearninga fluent triumph of storytelling, rich in ideas and emotions both petty and grand.The titular atavists include an underachieving, bewildered young bartender; a middle-aged mother convinced her gentle son-in-law is fixated on geriatric porn; a bodybuilder with an incels fantasy life; an arrogant academic accused of plagiarism; and an empty-nester dad determined to host refugees in a tiny house in his backyard.As they pick away at the splitting seams in American culture, Millets characters shimmer with the sense of powerlessness we share in an era of mass overwhelm. A beautician in a waxing salon faces a sudden resurgence of grief in the midst of a bikini Brazilian; a couple sets up a camera to find out whos been slipping homophobic letters into their mailbox; a jilted urban planner stalks a man she met on a dating app.In its rich warp and weft of humiliations and human error, Atavists returns to the trenchant, playful social commentary that made A Childrens Bible a runaway hit. In these stories sharp observations of middle-class mores and sanctimony give way to moments of raw exposure and longing: Atavists performs an uncanny fictional magic, full of revelation but also hilarious, unpretentious, and warm.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: CA • Contemporary • cultist • Digital Age • dramatist • Families • Funny • Futurist • interconnected • linked • Los Angeles • mixologist • post pandemic life • Satire • short fiction • Social commentary • Southern California • Suburban Fiction • suburban fictiontourist
• ISBN-10: 1-324-07442-6 / 1324074426
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-07442-7 / 9781324074427