Everyones Pretty, Lydia Millet
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Everyone's Pretty

Author: Lydia Millet

Narrator: Cady Zuckerman

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/13/2021


Synopsis

In Los Angeles, Dean Decetes, a pornographer with messianic delusions, spins out of control, spending his time drinking himself into a stupor, getting beaten up by strangers hes recklessly insulted, stealing credit cards to pay for sex, being arrested, begging favors, and mounting a PR campaign to make himself famous with the help of a loyal foot soldiera porn-loving midget he met in jail.Meanwhile his pious, romantic spinster sister, who reluctantly keeps house for him, busies herself writing quasi-religious love notes to the boss she worships, and two of her coworkers at the statistics companyan obsessive-compulsive Christian Scientist in a twisted marriage and a promiscuous, depressed blonde bombshellbecome enmeshed in her life as she dreams of ridding herself of her freeloading brother and being carried away on a white horse by her employer. Then a teenage math genius runs away from home after her mother humiliates her in school and hooks up at a bar with Decetess suicidal editor.Told from five points of view, this novel takes place over the three wild days in which these lives intersect.

Author Bio

Lydia Millet is the PEN Award-winning author of eleven works of literary fiction, including Sweet Lamb of Heaven and Magnificence, which have been New York Times Notables and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists. She lives in Arizona.

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