the Pulitzer finalist's philosophical fireworks add layers of energy and mystery., e have a real thriller on our hands. Her ambitious new novel, 'Sweet Lamb of Heaven,' is part fast-paced thriller, part quiet meditation on the nature of God.', repare to be surprised by more than plot twists. This may be her most beguiling and accessible creation yet., 'Lydia Millet is not as popular as she should be. Unpredictable in the best sense, Millet's eye-opening stories and conceptions are irresistibly interesting. By novel's end.the stakes have been raised through the roof., Millet evinces a rare capacity to surprise and fascinate readers. This novel will change that.Her ambitious new novel, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, is part fast-paced thriller, part quiet meditation on the nature of God., e have a real thriller on our hands.part of a higher-stakes game being played by Millet, one that will ultimately, unabashedly touch on time, beauty, horror, God, demons and the very nature of being. ow I missed it when it was gone, how I yearned for it to speak to me again.', Sweet Lamb of Heaven confounded me, delightfully so.I have little patience with literary novels that claim to have the propulsive momentum of a thriller, yet Millet pulls it off.It is Anna's voice-cool, intelligent, passionate, contradictory-that makes this novel so affecting.ow I missed it when it was gone, how I yearned for it to speak to me again., Lydia Millet is not as popular as she should be. It is Anna's voice - cool, intelligent, passionate, contradictory - that makes this novel so affecting. I have little patience with literary novels that claim to have the propulsive momentum of a thriller, yet Millet pulls it off. Millet has a knack for planting plainspoken, world-weary narrators in otherworldly circumstances, and Anna is one of her sharpest, most intriguingly philosophical creations., ''Sweet Lamb of Heaven' confounded me, delightfully so. Millet's fine prose as rich with fresh imagery as it is open-minded to life's hidden possibilities., A peculiar, stirring thriller. A feat of genre-breaking., Operating, as always, on multiple levels with artistic panache, emotional precision, and profound intent, Millet transforms a violent family conflict into a war of cosmic proportions over nothing less than life itself., A rare pleasure to read.

A winner., We didn't know we needed a metaphysical thriller, but here Millet is with a fine one. sneaks in some high-minded themes (the nature of reality, the fragility of human connection) without distracting one iota from the suspense.

Novel so eerie, so chilling and provocative, that you might find yourself rethinking everything you thought you knew about language, belief, and where our human race might be going., ddictive, unsettling.

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