Atavists :Stories
Atavists :Stories
hardback
Published:
22 April, 2025
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Description
Prizes
Short-listed for Story Prize 2025
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781324074410 |
| ISBN10 | 1324074418 |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 339 g |
| Product Dimensions | 147 x 218 x 25 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | WW Norton & Co |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
"Very few writers can make the apocalypse hilarious and sentimental. Millet is the kind of contemporary genius who should be at every book festival and on every creative writing course." -- Stuart Kelly - Scotland on Sunday
"[Millet] knows how to put a story together. How to pace drama and consummate tension, when to turn up the volume and when to leave us alone with what she’s put in motion." -- Fiona Maazel - The New York Times
"Although optimism is understandably in short supply, Millet delivers her doom with a generous dose of subversive humour… Millet has an excellent ear for dialogue, and her characters are endearing." -- Mia Levitin - Financial Times
"All this tension, which Millet renders keenly and readably, is built and released in the face of immense and existential forces of undoing... the stories are presented conventionally, in clean, polished prose." -- Leo Lasdun - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Millet playfully skewers Los Angeles liberals while leaving their social concerns quietly intact on the page… in the hands of the Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist these characters arrive fully formed, complex and warm." -- Maria Crawford - Financial Times, ‘Best summer books of 2025: Fiction’
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Author's Bio
Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.