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Fight No More: Stories

Lydia Millet

Reader Score

77%

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This wonderfully original collection proves once again that Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is "the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune). In Fight No More, Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting a community through the houses they inhabit. With crackling satire and surprising tenderness, Millet introduces an indelible cast of untidy teens, beastly men, and strong-minded women whose stories begin to outline the fate of one particular family being torn apart by forces they recognize but cannot control. Millet's intellect and beautiful prose deliver profound insight into human behavior, from the ordinary to the bizarre, and draws startling contrasts between house and home.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Jun 18th, 2019
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.60in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9780393357042
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)Literary

About the Author

Millet, Lydia: - 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.

Critics’ reviews

Praise for this book

[A] shimmering and brilliantly engaged collection.--Marisa Silver "New York Times Book Review"
[Millet is] one of the funniest writers of American fiction, a rival of George Saunders, Paul Beatty, Nell Zink, and Donald Antrim.... You have the sense that Millet could easily bury us in her smartness but has instead cleaved to the characters she's created and made her humor generously broad. These are accessible fictions.-- "New York Magazine"
Millet's great virtue is her negative capability. She inhabits the thoughts of the young and the elderly, of the fortunate and the bereaved, and of deviants and crackpots with equal candor and conversational ease.-- "Wall Street Journal"
Superb.... The collection is linked through characters that reappear (as relatives, friends, lovers) as the book progresses, showing the ways in which we are living in simultaneous dimensions of pain, betrayal and forgetting. Yet as bleak as their situations may get, there remains a thread of dark humor.-- "Los Angeles Times"
The tales' intersections are as intricate as L.A.'s freeways--but, unlike the 405 at rush hour, totally delightful.-- "O, The Oprah Magazine"
Each new story swerves like a breathtaking drive through L.A., logical yet surprising.... Fight No More takes the connected story model to a pure and higher form, creating a satisfying web that expands one character, one ZIP code, one housing situation at a time, to 13 tales that are each distinct and whole but form something daring in their entirety.-- "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"