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Sweet lamb of heaven : a novel / Lydia Millet.

ISBN: 9780393285543
ISBN: 0393285545
Physical Description: 250 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton &amp; Company, [2016]
Copyright: &copy;2016

Millet, Lydia, 1968- (author.).

Summary:

Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists-- and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife's world in ways she never could have imagined. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters-- and for all of us.