Description:
Lucy EllmannDucks, Newburyport
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.
Signed by Lucy Ellmann on the title page
Winner of the The Goldsmiths Prize 2019
Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize
Limited Edition with black covers, one of only 500 such copies
A fine, unread copy of a first edition, first impression paperback original
published - Galley Beggar Press, 2019
