ISBN: 9781922458070 Title: Things Are Against Us Author: ELLMANN LUCY
The worst thing about men taking over the cooking of fancy food in restaurants is that every dish now arrives covered in ejaculant, all those drizzles and foam and schmeers...
Things Are Against Usis the first collection of essays from Booker Prize-shortlisted author Lucy Ellmann. It is everything you might expect from such a fiery writer--which is to say, entirely unexpected. Provocative, smart, angry, wise and very, very funny, the essays in Things Are Against Uscover everything--from feminism to environmental catastrophe; labour strikes to sex strikes; Little House On The Prairieto Donald Trump. Lucy calls for a moratorium on air travel (''You''d think a global pandemic would be an opportunity to reconsider the whole crazy business''). She rails against bras (''Men have managed to eroticise bras, but THEY DON''T HAVE TO WEAR THEM''). She gives Agatha Christie short shrift (''atrocious but ideal for people with colds''). And she pleads for sanity in a world that--well. A world that has spent four years in the company of Donald Trump. (''That big fat loser of a president, that nasty, sick, terrible, lowly, truly pathetic, reckless, sad, weak, lazy, incompetent, third-rate, clueless, not smart, dumb as a rock, all talk, wacko, fourthrate goofball and all-round low-life'').
Things Are Against Usis electric. It''s vital. These are essays bursting with energy, and reading them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times.
Lucy Ellmann''s most recent novel, Ducks, Newburyport, was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize and the 2020 James Tait Black Prize. It was also longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Telegraph, New Statesmanand Society, Spectator, Herald, Scottish Review of Books, Time Out(London), Art Monthly, Thirsty Books, Bookforum, Aeon, Evergreenand Baffler. American by birth, she now lives in Scotland.
''Breathlessly brilliant...An extraordinary achievement of wit and imagination...This isn''t just one of the outstanding books of 2019, it''s one of the outstanding books of the century, so far.'' Irish Times
''Lunatic and splenetic and distinctive... I begin to suspect [Lucy Ellmann] might be some sort of genius.'' Telegraph
''A looping, joyously parenthetical excursion through the mind of an American housewife and the anxieties and absurdities of our historical moment.'' James Bradley, Australian
''Very funny, very readable and one of those novels that expand the possibilities of what a novel can be and do.'' Mark Haddon
''[Readers] will recognise Ellmann''s dauntless cataloguing of desires, her refusal to be anything but self-directed...It''s a book about a mother''s love, but also about loss and grief, and anxiety dreams about Donald Trump, and despair about mass shootings...It is also a catalogue of life''s many injuries and mishaps...and of the simple joys and consolations of memory and imagination. [A] triumph.'' Guardian
''A remarkable portrait of a woman in contemporary America contemplating her own life and society''s storm clouds...Brilliant.'' Publishers Weekly(starred review)
''This book has its face pressed up against the pane of the present; its form mimics the way our minds move now...Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet. It feels dense at first, a bit like drowning, without a period or paragraph break in sight. But a rhythm asserts itself and a structure, musical and associative....The capaciousness of the book allows Ellmann to stretch and tell the story of one family on a canvas that stretches back to the bloody days of Western expansion, but its real value feels deeper -- it demands the very attentiveness, the care, that it enshrines.'' New York Times
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