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Things Are Against Us is the first collection of essays from Lucy Ellmann. 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 patriarchal terrorism. Lucy calls for a moratorium on air travel. She rails against bras. She gives Agatha Christie a drubbing. And she pleads for sanity in a world that has spent four years in the company of Donald Trump. Things Are Against Us is electric. It's vital. These are essays bursting with energy, and listening to them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is just the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times.
'Ellmann has long delighted in provocation." THE NEW YORKER
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
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.
'Full of wit and intelligence... and one of the most intriguing, charming and genuinely funny characters I have come across in recent years.' THE HERALD
'Is it any good? Oh my word yes. Reading it at this point in time feels like an act of human solidarity, a commitment to a world of truth and reason.' THE LITERARY REVIEW
'Extraordinary... astounding... amazing... one of the outstanding books of the century.' THE IRISH TIMES
'In her latest novel, Lucy Ellmann doesn't just carry on as before: she doubles up, doubles down, and absolutely goes for broke. (...) Success? Failure? A triumph.' GUARDIAN
'A novel that rewards perseverance, is truly unique, and feels like an absence in your life when you finish it.' THE OBSERVER
"A masterpiece like no other." VOGUE
Collinsport is broken. David Collins is intent on rebuilding the town, and enlists the help of his old friend Amy Cunningham. As they reconnect and discover feelings they never knew existed, another woman from David's past is about to make a return...
Cyrus Longworth has carried the Son of the Dark Lord in his head since the day he was born. Sabrina Jennings murdered her husband on their wedding night. Caught in the Dark Lord's tangled web, all hell is about to break loose...
"Collinsport Hospital is where you come if you want to die."
But no one is dying at Collinsport Hospital, even those who wish to.
When student parapsychologist Amy Jennings is rushed into intensive care, she reluctantly begins to investigate, and soon finds the hospital morgue is anything but empty. But who is behind it? And what could they possibly want?
Amy might be guaranteed to make it out alive, but she is about to discover there are fates far worse than death.
"Don't live in the darkness, Amy Jennings."
Adolescence is difficult enough, especially when your family members are vampires and werewolves. But somehow Amy Jennings survived it.
Now a young woman, Amy has come back to Collinsport, determined to forget the horrors of childhood and start anew. But growing up means confronting the truth about the world around you and Amy's rite of passage has only just begun.
Drawn into a world of obscene wealth, blind seduction, and cold-blooded murder by the irresistible Dominic Randall, Amy is about to learn that passion burns. But so does a woman's scorn... because falling in love can be incendiary.
