Ducks, Newburyport
Ellmann, Lucy, 1956-2019
Book
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.
Main title:
Ducks, Newburyport / Lucy Ellmann.
Author:
Ellmann, Lucy, 1956-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Norwich : Galley Beggar Press, 2019.
Collation:
1030 pages : maps (black and white) ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781910296967 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
2825957