"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 heresy―and a revolution in the novel.

Yazar:

Lucy Ellmann

Tahmini Okuma Süresi: 29 sa. 28 dk.Sayfa Sayısı: 1040Basım Tarihi: 10 Eylül 2019Yayınevi: ‎Biblioasis First Edition

ISBN: ‎9781771963077Dil: İngilizce

Türler:

Roman,

Siyaset-Politika

Kitap İstatistikleri

77gösterim

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Lucy EllmannYazar · 0 kitap

"Ellmann, Amerikalı biyografi yazarı ve eleştirmen Richard Ellmann ve feminist eleştirmen Mary Ellmann'ın kızıdır. Illinois'te doğan Ellmann, 13 yaşında Birleşik Krallık'a taşındı. Falmouth Üniversitesi, Essex Üniversitesi ve Courtauld Enstitüsü'nde sanat eğitimi aldı. İlk kitabı Sweet Desserts, Guardian Fiction Ödülü'nü kazandı. Ellmann, Amerikalı yazar Todd McEwen ile evlidir. Dördüncü romanı Dot in the Universe, Orange Prize for Fiction ve Believer Book Award'a aday gösterildi. Son kitabı Ducks, Newburyport ise 2019 Booker Prize'ına aday gösterildi. Ellmann, 2009 Eylül'ünden 2010 Temmuz'una kadar Kent Üniversitesi'nde yaratıcı yazma seminerleri verdi ve konferanslar düzenledi."

Ducks, Newburyport