Ducks, Newburyport - Couverture souple

Ellmann, Lucy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910296961 ISBN 13 : 9781910296967

Editeur : Galley Beggar Press, 2019

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Extraordinary... astounding... amazing... one of the outstanding books of the century, so far." --The Irish Times

"In her latest novel, Lucy Ellmann doesn't just carry on as before: she doubles up, doubles down, and absolutely goes for broke. (...) Success? Failure? A triumph." -- The Guardian

"Resplendent in ambition, humour, and humanity. (...) In Ducks, Newburyport, Ellmann has created a wisecracking Mrs Dalloway for the internet age." -- The Financial Times

"A novel that rewards perseverance, is truly unique, and feels like an absence in your life when you finish it." -- The Observer

"Forbidding and magnificent... Ellmann has produced a domestic epic of modern American life in the Trump era." -- Prospect

"Astonishing. (...) A Molly Bloom for middle America." -- BBC Front Row

"Full of wit and intelligence... and one of the most intriguing, charming and genuinely funny characters I have come across in recent years." -- The Herald

"Is it any good? Oh my word yes. Reading it at this point in time feels like an act of human solidarity, a commitment to a world of truth and reason." -- The Literary Review

"A bravura feat: a stream of consciousness, a transcript of the world under modern conditions, and (as a consequence of Ellmann's fierce and succinct wit) very funny." -- The Scottish Review of Books

"Timely, fresh... and possibly one of the most important books of the decade." -- The LA Review of Books

"An impressive feat... Ellmann's 1024 pages put her male contemporaries in the shade." -- The Sunday Times

"Ulysses has nothing on this." -- Cosmopolitan

"A huge achievement." -- The Times Literary Supplement

"Hilarious, gigantic, jaw-breakingly delicious... Ducks, Newburyport contains multitudes. This is the book of the year and of the first couple of decades of the twenty-first century." -- Bookmunch

"A Joycean achievement... A colossal feat... Perhaps the most intensely real depiction of the life of the quotidian mind I've ever witnessed." -- The Spectator
"A wildly ambitious and totally unique masterpiece. ... [Ducks, Newburyport] stands out in the current literary landscape like an octopus on a sidewalk, a standing challenge to a literary culture that tends to produce quiet novels in the nineteenth century mold." -- Michigan Daily
"Ellmann adeptly riffs on a vertiginous range of subjects, all the while carefully avoiding the didacticism that would warp the novel into a soapbox or a gallows. Her heroine s anger burns cleanly, refusing the easy conflagration of self-righteousness. The cumulative effect is devastating. This is a powerful and deeply felt indictment of moral failure, a fearful, dazzling bloom of conscience. ... A grand, mimetic achievement." -- The Nation
"Delicious... brilliant... mind-blowing... There are novels, and then there are extraordinary novels truly unique, one-of-a-kind, sui generis terms that are often used as clichés but I assure you not in Lucy Ellmann's case, regarding her eighth novel, Ducks, Newburyport." -- Counterpunch
"Innovative, intelligent, and simply extraordinary" -- Lithub
"Effervescent... Ellmann has made a case that a richer, less regimented language leads to a more vibrant and capacious mind, and has thus crafted the entrancing Ducks, Newburyport into a celebration of all that words, and the minds they build, can contain." -- Chicago Review of Books
"Wondrous... A complex book about a complicated time. It reads like an outpour of humanity beckoning to be heard." -- Electric Literature
"A jaw-dropping miracle." -- Library Journal
"A remarkable portrait of a woman in contemporary America contemplating her own life and society's storm clouds... Brilliant." -- --Publishers Weekly

Présentation de l'éditeur :

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

OBSERVER FICTION PICKS 2019 | THE HERALD FICTION PICKS 2019 | THE IRISH TIMES FICTION PICKS 2019 | SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS FICTION PICKS 2019 | COSMOPOLITAN FICTION PICKS 2019

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.

"Ulysses has got nothing on this." -- Cosmopolitan

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Galley Beggar Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1910296961
• ISBN 13: 9781910296967
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1020