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Lydia Millet

Fight No More: Stories Kindle Edition

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New York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick

A Library Journal Best Book of 2018

“Full of joys on every scale.” —NPR

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.

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June 12, 2018
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	Dinosaurs: A Novel	A Children's Bible: A Novel	Fight No More: Stories	Sweet Lamb of Heaven: A Novel
More from Lydia Millet	"Deceptively simple and quietly lovely." ―Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire	Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction	“Full of joys on every scale.” ―NPR	"[A] hypnotic novel of psychological and philosophical suspense." ―O Magazine


	Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel	Magnificence: A Novel	Ghost Lights: A Novel	Omnivores: A Novel
	"Hilariously funny…Lydia Millet’s novels raise the bar for boldness." ―Rene Steinke, New York Times Book Review	"[A] novel of ideas or philosophy, disguised as a portrait of one woman’s midlife upheaval." ―Laura Miller, Salon	"Surreal, darkly hilarious and profound." ―San Francisco Chronicle	An explosive satire that scorches our culture’s monstrous men and institutions.

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"[A] shimmering and brilliantly engaged collection."
― Marisa Silver, New York Times Book Review

"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

"[Fight No More] is a novel about death disguised as a story collection about real estate, and it's alternately wrenching and hilarious, peaceful and joyful, so tender you almost can't bear it and so brutal you know that you can't."
― NPR

"Irresistible … a sprawling, tender portrait of modern adults quietly trapped by their youthful aspirations."
― Publishers Weekly

"Millet so readily shifts point of view―by turns she can be a snotty rich kid, a pedophile, and a lower-class cam girl striving to rise above her station. … A linked-story collection done right, with sensitive and complex characters each looking for a place to call home."
― Kirkus (starred review)

"As Millet makes exceptionally potent use of the linked-stories form, her writing is razor-edged, her comedy at once caustic and compassionate, and her insights agile as she contrasts rich and poor, house and home, delusion and love. … [C]onfirms the evolution of this stellar author’s vital, caring, and audacious creativity and literary splendor."
― Booklist (starred review)

"Hilarious and fantastical…. [T]he most original short story collection I’ve read in years."
― Michael Silverblatt, Bookworm on KCRW --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

About the Author

Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times 10 Best Book of 2020, among other works of fiction. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B076MRR2W4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (June 12, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 12, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2220 KB
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Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 215 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0393635481

Best Sellers Rank: #963,992 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #610 in Literary Satire Fiction
- #1,421 in Humorous Literary Fiction
- #8,031 in Contemporary Literary Fiction

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Lydia Millet is the author of more than a dozen novels and story collections. Known for her dark humor, idiosyncratic characters and language, and strong interest in the relationship between humans and other animals, Millet was born in Boston and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She now lives outside Tucson, Arizona with her family, where she has worked as an editor and writer at the Center for Biological Diversity since 1999. Sometimes called a "novelist of ideas," she won the PEN-USA award for fiction for her early novel My Happy Life (2002); in 2010, her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and another collection, Fight No More, received an award of merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019. Her recent novel A Children's Bible, about the intergenerational traumas of climate change and extinction, was a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times Best 10 Books of 2020.

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No Spoilers

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018

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This is my first time reading this author and I really enjoy her writing. I will be looking for other books by her when I am done. I felt like this book didn't really have an ending but it captures people's lives in all stages of growing older that no neat and tidy ending was appropriate. I think this author not only is very insightful regarding teenage angst but beautifully captures the over 70 state of mind as well. A definite talent!

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Lynn

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Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2021

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Had to buy it for a class. Not my cup of tea, but it's well written. Essentially, it's a book of short stories following different characters and how their stories eventually enter-twine. I didn't relate to any of the characters and found it to drag on.

Note, I prefer adult high-action, fantasy and romance novels. This book is more of the realistic fiction genre.

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2018

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That's some book! Brought it on a whim when I heard her interviewed on NPR. Great stories all tied together. In every story I found someone I cared about. That's not easy for me.

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David E. Johnson

What wonderful writing

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2018

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If you enjoy well-crafted writing, poignant stories, and insightful looks at human nature, this is the book for you. Stunning writing delicately weaving several short stories into a coherent whole while retaining the individuality of each story...a quilt of a plot, if you will. Highly recommend.

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Grayburro

Well written

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2018

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I didn’t find it humorous but did find it interesting.

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2018

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Excellent, excellent, excellent!

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Betsy Kipnis

All the stories are interconnected which is highly satisfying as it drives a purpose to keep on reading and not leaving readers feeling like they've just watched Veep or Law and Order

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2018

Using a realtor to observe people and turning them into characters and short stories is entirely clever. Insight, insight, insight Millet has as she brings readers into the homes and lives of people in and around LA. All the stories are interconnected which is highly satisfying as it drives a purpose to keep on reading and not leaving readers feeling like they've just watched Veep or Law and Order. Millet plays with the contrasts that lives can offer and uses people's changing need and nature for housing as a vehicle. Some of the characters and changes are tragic and some comical. She definitely has range for conflict and tone. Characters are introspective and openly narrative when reflecting on consequential decisions in their lives. At times the book reminded me of American Housewives in using real estate, human need and flaw to contain and tell stories. It was a lot of fun. The earlier stories weren't as compelling as the later ones.

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Stephen T. Hopkins

Home

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2018

There are times when I walk by houses, my mind wanders and I think about the individuals who live there and what those lives are like. In her short story collection titled, Fight No More, Lydia Millet uses a single protagonist, a real estate agent named Nina, to link the stories together. Through Nina’s eyes, readers learn about these individuals and Millet raises the tension as we learn what goes on behind closed doors. The writing is superb, and the stories are well-told.

Rating: Four-star (I like it)

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Paolo Di Giusto

flawless and flavourless

Reviewed in Italy on August 1, 2023

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A good, neat, industrial product. Like those big plumpy peaches you buy in supermarket, which taste of nothing but are still refreshing. Summer reading.

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