Ducks Newburyport Lucy Ellmann by Lucy Ellmann 9781910296967, 1910296961, B07R12JWKY instant download after payment.

Lucy Ellmann’s scorching indictment of America’s barbarity, past and present, and a lament for a world sleepwalking into an 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.

"Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann is brilliant—and addictive ... The listings, beginning with 'the fact that' and separated by commas, aren’t just lumped together. There’s an art to them, a rhythm, that sort of takes you ... The reason this book resonates is that we all seem to be thinking in spirals, fueled by nonstop news, social media, and multiple screens. While the narrative seemingly jumps from one topic to another in a random stream of consciousness, reading it is an act of focus because it’s so mesmerizing ... "   -  Donna Liquori, The Associated Press

Lucy Ellmann is the daughter of two writers, Richard and Mary Ellman. Lucy Ellmann’s autobiographical first novel, Sweet Desserts (1988), was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize. Both her second book, Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (1991), and her third, Man or Mango? (1998), were shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her other novels include Dot in the Universe (2003), Doctors and Nurses (2006), and Mimi (2013).