Man Or Mango Lucy Ellmann by Lucy Ellmann 9781771964951, 1771964952 instant download after payment.

By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, is a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.

"Very funny... excels at the dynamics of getting-past-your-prime singlehood."  -  New York Times Book Review

Eloise is the sad, mad, and hermetic heroine at the centre of Lucy Ellmann's hilarious new novel. A middle-aged cellist who hides herself away in a tiny British cottage, she blames the world for its lack of love and similarly despises it for its anger. Not until her beloved cello is stolen - and her former lover, an American poet named George, returns - does Eloise emerge from her shell. It is then that she and a myriad cast of schemers, cheats, and lovers descend upon a small Irish village and its inhabitants.

"Prickly, strange and wholly ridiculous, the characters of Man or Mango? are delightful and so are their strange, overlapping journeys. People who enjoy mysterious, character-driven, plotless fiction will be at home in this novel, a lovely taste of what Ellmann can do."  -  Miramichi Reader

Fierce, funny and strange (touching on the unseen links between donkeys, fruit labelling and ferry disasters) Lucy Ellmann's third novel reveals the stubborn nature of absurdity. Man or Mango? wanders through the darkest areas of human behaviour, and our century's history, asking how to live - and how to love.