Ghost lights a novel

Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.--the protagonist of Lydia Millet's novel How the Dead Dream--who has vanished in a tropica...

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Main Author: Millet, Lydia, 1968-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
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