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Fight No More

Fight No More
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Available in: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
  • Published: June 19, 1919
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“Superb … just because we can be made to laugh doesn’t mean it’s not dead serious.”
–LA Times

From the publisher

In her first story collection since Love in Infant Monkeys, which became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to be home. Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting fractured communities and families. She moves through the houses of L.A.’s wealthy elite and finds men and women both crass and tender, vicious and desperate. With wit and intellect, Millet offers profound insight into human behavior from the ordinary to the bizarre: strong-minded girls are beset by the helpless, myopic executives are tormented by their employees, and beastly men do beastly things.

Notables

• New York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick

• A Library Journal Best Book of 2018

 


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