· Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy Ellmann, Galley Beggar Press, pp, , £ (paperback) In October another fatberg the size of a double-decker bus, reportedly weighing in at a modest 40 tonnes, was hand-scraped from the sewers of London by Thames Water engineers. Monuments to our collective waste, these titanic coagulations of faeces, fats and unflushables – a Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. PRAISE FOR DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT. “Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport offers a radical literary form and voice. Dense to look at, challengingly epic, the novel is built around one Ohio housewife’s monologue, flowing with dazzling lightness and speed.4/5(). A sad satirical novel Ducks, Newburyport is built on contrasts: Lucy Ellmann compares and opposes the life of a harassed housewife – a product of modern civilization – to the life of a lioness – an innocent product of nature. Alertness was her new mode, but the cubs’ easy slumber was contagious.4/5(K).
The Associated Press. 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. "The unstoppable monologue of an Ohio housewife in Lucy Ellmann's extraordinary Ducks, Newburyport is like nothing you've ever read before. A cacophony of humour, violence, and Joycean word play, it engages - furiously - with the detritus of domesticity as well as Trump's America. Ducks, Newburyport (Paperback) Lucy Ellmann (author) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★. 9 Reviews Sign in to write a review. £ Paperback Pages / Published: 17/09/ 10+ in stock. Available. This item has been added to your basket.
The narrator’s mother was raised in Newburyport, Mass., and as a 2-year-old, wandered into a pond, chasing after ducks. She was saved by her older sister, who was terrified of water but rushed. Ducks, Newburyport is a novel by British author Lucy Ellmann. The novel is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style, and consists of a single long sentence with clauses often starting with the phrase "the fact that." The book runs over pages. It won the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Lucy Ellmann’s new novel, “Ducks, Newburyport,” the narrator lives in a country whose mythic propositions hang in the same limbo as her thousand-page run-on sentence. Illustration by Rose.
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