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Ducks, Newburyport
Written by Lucy Ellmann
- Shortlisted
- The Booker Prize 2019
- Published by Galley Beggar Press
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Lucy Ellmann’s scorching indictment of America’s barbarity, past and present, and a lament for a world sleepwalking into environmental disaster
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.
Lucy Ellmann
Lucy Ellmann is the daughter of two writers, Richard and Mary Ellman. Her eighth novel, Ducks, Newburyport was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
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