Ducks, Newburyport [electronic resource]

Ellmann, Lucy2019

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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? It’s also very, very funny. “A 900-page novel in a single sentence? If that sounds like your kind of thing (and if it does, I like you already), then look out for Ducks, Newburyport, a wildly ambitious and righteously angry portrait of contemporary America.” —OBSERVER FICTION PICKS, 2019 “Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport, is already being hailed as a modernist masterpiece. Following the inner thoughts of an Ohio housewife, it’s one sentence long, nine hundred pages... and my kind of fun.” —THE HERALD FICTION PICKS, 2019 “Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport has been making headlines as a book to watch in 2019 – and with good reason.” —THE IRISH TIMES