Copyright © 1996 by Lydia Millet
First published as a Norton paperback 2018
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Millet, Lydia, 1968– author.
Title: Omnivores : a novel / Lydia Millet.
Description: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018009311 | ISBN 9780393635461 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Married women—Fiction. | Mothers and sons—Fiction. | Satire. | GSAFD: Black humor (Literature)
Classification: LCC PS3563.I42175 O46 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
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