Posted on 09/07/05
A dazzling, mushroom-shaped satire
Oh Pure and Radiant HeartBy Lydia MilletSoft Skull, 489 pages, $33.95Each of Lydia Millet's previous novels -- Omnivores (1996), George Bush, Dark Prince of Love (2000), My Happy Life (2002) and Everyone's Pretty (2005) -- is a lyric dystopia. In the contemporary United States, where the consumer is at the last consumed, death is the final amendment to the pursuit of happiness. Now, in Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, the Grim Reaper himself is -- if not exactly consumed -- cheated of the mushroom-cloud rapture.
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