# How the Dead Dream

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- Book: [How the Dead Dream](https://www.bookquiver.com/lydia-millet/how-the-dead-dream) ([How the Dead Dream.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lydia-millet/how-the-dead-dream.md))
- Authors: [Lydia Millet](https://www.bookquiver.com/lydia-millet)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-063-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2015-02-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An only child in a typical middle-American family, T is unusual only in his interest in, and talent for, making money. As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman. But T's material life begins to change after he adopts a dog, meets a girl, and takes his mother in after she splits up with his father. But when events conspire to leave T isolated again he starts to lose faith in people and civilisation and turns to nature instead, developing a strange and powerful obsession with endangered animals...