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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Biblioasis
ISBN-10
1771963077
ISBN-13
9781771963077
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038488058
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ducks, Newburyport
Number of Pages
1040 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Family Life, Small Town & Rural, Literary, Political
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
2.1 in
Item Weight
39.2 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Praise for Ducks, Newburyport "A wildly ambitious and righteously angry portrait of contemporary America."--The Observer Praise for Lucy Ellmann "[Ellmann] demonstrates her many skills as a writer: an unsentimental eye for the incongruities of modern life; a bawdy sense of humor, and a distinctive voice, by turns angry and regretful, poetic and dyspeptic . . . It is in these last few pages of the book that Ms. Ellmann demonstrates that she is not merely a clever collage maker, but a gifted writer capable of exploring the tragedies as well as the absurdities of family life."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "When I first read Ellmann, I loved her bizarreness, her ferocious humour. But she's even angrier now, more indignant, and that's what gives this book its sly substance. The streak of fury that runs through it is stealthy, apparently feminine, cloaked in ditziness. But underneath there are claws and teeth.--Julie Myerson, Guardian "Ellmann transcends the novel form--she's in a class of her own."--Cosmopolitan "[I]t's somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer so angry and intelligent."--Patrick Ness, Guardian "I have been told that reviewers complained about the use of screaming capitals in Lucy Ellmann's first book, which is why she now packs every page with them . . . Her latest novel, a melded spoof of medical romances and Jane Eyre, is as lunatic and splenetic and distinctive as anything that will be published this year . . . I begin to suspect she may be some sort of genius.--Victoria Lane, Telegraph "Funny, angry, sarcastic and utterly individual, Ellmann has been described as 'one of literature's most well-kept secrets'."--Alison Flood, Observer "Ellmann's writing is fearless . . . a whistle-stop tour of the paraphernalia that litters all our minds. Oddments that most of us notice and discard are here burnished into literary devices."--Alice Fishburn, Financial Times "A true poet . . . Ellmann is a bright and shining talent."--Meredith Phillips, Austin Chronicle "Original, funny and slickly written . . . an angry and imaginative tour de force, salted with caustic insights and sweetened with pathos."--Daily Mail "For all its satire and tricksy inter-textuality...simply a big happy book about loving women. Now that's shocking."--Melissa Katsoulis, Times "Rarely has there been such a mischievous affirmation of the meaninglessness of existence."--Lisa Allardice, Telegraph "A lively ride ... bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf. This is all wonderful."--Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times "If there were a laureate for anger, it should go to Lucy Ellmann."--Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday, Praise for Ducks, Newburyport "A wildly ambitious and righteously angry portrait of contemporary America."--The Observer "Perhaps the most ambitious novel of '19, a contemporary Molly Bloom soliloquy, a paginated lioness, a corrective, a challenge, a 'Moby-dick of the kitchen' in weird but sorta true ways."--Josh Cook, Porter Square Books Praise for Lucy Ellmann "[Ellmann] demonstrates her many skills as a writer: an unsentimental eye for the incongruities of modern life; a bawdy sense of humor, and a distinctive voice, by turns angry and regretful, poetic and dyspeptic . . . It is in these last few pages of the book that Ms. Ellmann demonstrates that she is not merely a clever collage maker, but a gifted writer capable of exploring the tragedies as well as the absurdities of family life."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "When I first read Ellmann, I loved her bizarreness, her ferocious humour. But she's even angrier now, more indignant, and that's what gives this book its sly substance. The streak of fury that runs through it is stealthy, apparently feminine, cloaked in ditziness. But underneath there are claws and teeth.--Julie Myerson, Guardian "Ellmann transcends the novel form--she's in a class of her own."--Cosmopolitan "[I]t's somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer so angry and intelligent."--Patrick Ness, Guardian "I have been told that reviewers complained about the use of screaming capitals in Lucy Ellmann's first book, which is why she now packs every page with them . . . Her latest novel, a melded spoof of medical romances and Jane Eyre, is as lunatic and splenetic and distinctive as anything that will be published this year . . . I begin to suspect she may be some sort of genius.--Victoria Lane, Telegraph "Funny, angry, sarcastic and utterly individual, Ellmann has been described as 'one of literature's most well-kept secrets'."--Alison Flood, Observer "Ellmann's writing is fearless . . . a whistle-stop tour of the paraphernalia that litters all our minds. Oddments that most of us notice and discard are here burnished into literary devices."--Alice Fishburn, Financial Times "A true poet . . . Ellmann is a bright and shining talent."--Meredith Phillips, Austin Chronicle "Original, funny and slickly written . . . an angry and imaginative tour de force, salted with caustic insights and sweetened with pathos."--Daily Mail "For all its satire and tricksy inter-textuality...simply a big happy book about loving women. Now that's shocking."--Melissa Katsoulis, Times "Rarely has there been such a mischievous affirmation of the meaninglessness of existence."--Lisa Allardice, Telegraph "A lively ride ... bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf. This is all wonderful."--Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times "If there were a laureate for anger, it should go to Lucy Ellmann."--Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Synopsis
A form-breaking torrent of consciousness, narrated by an Ohio mother besieged by MAGA hats and mountain lions., WINNER OF THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE - SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE - A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2019 - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 - A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2019 "This book has its face pressed up against the pane of the present; its form mimics the way our minds move now toggling between tabs, between the needs of small children and aging parents, between news of ecological collapse and school shootings while somehow remembering to pay taxes and fold the laundry."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate, not even the Abominable Snowman? When are you allowed to start swearing? With a torrent of consciousness and an intoxicating coziness, Ducks, Newburyport lays out a whole world for you to tramp around in, by turns frightening and funny. A heart-rending indictment of America's barbarity, and a lament for the way we are blundering into environmental disaster, this book is both heresyand a revolution in the novel., SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE NOMINATED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate, not even the Abominable Snowman? When are you allowed to start swearing? With a torrent of consciousness and an intoxicating coziness, Ducks, Newburyport lays out a whole world for you to tramp around in, by turns frightening and funny. A heart-rending indictment of America's barbarity, and a lament for the way we are blundering into environmental disaster, this book is both heresy--and a revolution in the novel., WINNER OF THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE * A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2019 * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2019 "This book has its face pressed up against the pane of the present; its form mimics the way our minds move now toggling between tabs, between the needs of small children and aging parents, between news of ecological collapse and school shootings while somehow remembering to pay taxes and fold the laundry."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate, not even the Abominable Snowman? When are you allowed to start swearing? With a torrent of consciousness and an intoxicating coziness, Ducks, Newburyport lays out a whole world for you to tramp around in, by turns frightening and funny. A heart-rending indictment of America's barbarity, and a lament for the way we are blundering into environmental disaster, this book is both heresyand a revolution in the novel.
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PR6055.L54
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