Ducks, Newburyport

That fact that this is a 1000-page novel in the form of a list of an Ohio homemaker/baker’s anxieties and neuroses, the fact that across these intoxicating and scathing and fear-scorched pages the whole of contemporary America is encapsulated, the fact that a semicolon is never once wielded for the......more

Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2019 *sigh* Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 This book has a hypnotizing effect, as it relentlessly rambles on and on and on in what is NOT a stream-of-consciousness or, God forbid, one sentence. No one in their right mind has a train of thought like this midwester......more

The fact that after the second page it's just one long run-on sentence, sentence first, verdict after, afternoon tea, tea for two, Frère Jacques, row row row your boat merrily down the stream, stream of consciousness, consciousness explained, not, Not was going to read it first but I beat her to it,......more

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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. She......more