Things Are Against Us

Things Are Against Us
Lucy Ellmann
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2 Jul 2021 AU
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9781922458070
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A scorching collection of essays from the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, NewburyportThe 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 Us is 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 Us cover everything-from feminism to environmental catastrophe; labour strikes to sex strikes; Little House On The Prairie to 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 Us is 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.
' 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. This audacious and epic novel is brilliantly conceived, and challenges the reader with its virtuosity and originality. ' * 2019 Booker Prize Jury Citation *
Lucy Ellmann' s first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian fiction prize. Her short stories have appeared in magazines, newspapers and anthologies, and she has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Telegraph, New Statesman and Society, Spectator, Herald, Scottish Review of Books, Time Out (London), Art Monthly, Thirsty Books, Bookforum, Aeon, Evergreen and Baffler. American by birth, she now lives in Scotland.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781922458070
Published: 2 Jul 2021
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208

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