Ducks, Newburyport
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 201900Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of 'happy couples', Weapons of Mass Destruction, and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. Is there some trick to surviving survivalists? School shootings? Medical debts? Franks 'n' beans? A sc…
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- Full title :Ducks, Newburyport. / Lucy Ellmann.
Summary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 201900Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of 'happy couples', Weapons of Mass Destruction, and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. Is there some trick to surviving survivalists? School shootings? Medical debts? Franks 'n' beans? A scorching indictment of America's barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster, Ducks, Newburyport is a heresy, a wonder - and a revolution in the novel.
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- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Galley Beggar Press
- Place of Publication:Norwich
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:1020 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781910296967, 1910296961
- oclc:on1119964174
- LC Classification:PZ
- Dewey Decimal:813/823.9
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