Ducks, Newburyport /
By: Ellmann, Lucy [author.].
Series: Man Booker Prize. Publisher: Norwich, [England] : Galley Beggar Press, 2019Description: 1030 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781910296967; 9781910296967:; 1910296961; 9781913111984; 1913111989.Subject(s): American fiction -- 21st century
| English fiction -- 21st century | United States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- FictionDDC classification: 823.92 ELL Awards: Longlisted for Booker Prize 2019.Summary: Latticing 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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Latticing 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.
Longlisted for Booker Prize 2019.