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- Häftad, Svenska, 2022
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En hemmafru i Ohio bakar den ena pajen efter den andra och försöker samtidigt famna allt som inte går att greppa i ett liv. Hon oroar sig för sina barn, tänker på sitt äktenskap och på sina döda föräldrar. Men grubblerierna kan också röra afrikanska elefanter, hur lyckliga par egentligen har det, massförstörelsevapen, Donald Trump, klimatförändringar, sjukhuskostnader, skolskjutningar, katter och höns … Att beskriva Ankor, Newburyport är som att beskriva ett hav, eller en storm. Lucy Ellmann har skapat en vild medvetandeström som far mellan det meningsfulla och det meningslösa, mellan nuet och det förflutna – en revolutionerande roman som ser oändligheten i våra alldeles vanliga, begränsade liv.
Ankor, Newburyport har hyllats som en av vår tids stora romaner, i alla avseenden. Detta drygt tusensidiga verk nominerades till Bookerpriset och tilldelades The Goldsmiths Prize 2019 och etablerade Lucy Ellmann som både arvtagare till Joyce och Woolf och förnyare av romankonsten.
"Ellmann visar att det fanns – att det finns – stordåd kvar att göra. Ge hennes vardag en månad, helst på heltid, av ditt liv." Victor Malm, Expressen.
"…en bedrift" Dagens Nyheter
"en förgiftad, underhållande och alldeles nödvändig medvetandeström om dessa yttersta tider." Aftonbladet
"en säregen läsupplevelse" Norrköpings Tidningar
"Berörande och brett anlagd blir det också en bok som, den vindlande formen till trots, är så lätt att stiga in" Expressen
- E-bokEngelska, 2013
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year AwardBach, sculpture, plastic surgery, public speaking and a New York love story like no other - this is Lucy Ellmann''s most extraordinary work of art to date''Bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf'' Sunday Times''A wildly hilarious, modern film noir in fiction form'' Sunday TelegraphIt''s Christmas Eve in Manhattan.Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. ''Ya can''t sit there all day, buddy, looking up people''s skirts!'' chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet - Mimi! She kindly conjures for him the miracle of a taxi.Recuperating in his apartment with Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his life''s work, a List of Melancholy Things (Walmart, puppetry, Velcro, whale eyes, shrimp-eating contests...). But when he receives a dreaded invitation to address his old school, Mimi reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love.And, as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air. - E-bokEngelska, 2013
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize''Funny and furious ... Lucy Ellmann is clever, and very angry'' The TimesIn an eminent London art institute - the Catafalque - Our Heroine Isabel (she of the obsessional habits, perpetual virginity and peculiar belly button) sit in wistful contemplation of Chardin''s brushstrokes and the virile red socks of passing lecturers.Isabel''s wholly imaginary love life (based on the romantic notions of authoress Babs Cartwheel) bears little resemblance to that of her flatmate Pol, who prefers to grip reality by the balls.Enter Robert, victim of an American childhood, kitsch memorabilia, academic rivalry, Pol''s belly-dancing and Isabel''s mute adoration. Can he be perverse enough not to despair? - E-bokEngelska, 2013
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize''Shrewd, passionate, outrageous and very, very funny'' Sunday TimesDot used to think she was perfect, with her pointy nose, pink skin and blonde hair. But now she lives on Abalone Avenue with a husband who chases women and swordfish. And she has a rather icky Fatal Flaw. And the universe doesn''t give a damn!So DOT decides to End It All. Will death be fast? Slow? EMBARRASING? But despite her valiant suicide by tea cosy followed by a jaunt to the morgue, DOT wakes up... - E-bokEngelska, 2013
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize''As lunatic and splenetic and distinctive as anything that will be published this year ... I begin to suspect she may be some sort of genius'' Telegraph''It is somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer so angry and intelligent ... Doctors & Nurses is a novel bracingly alive, making more polite books cadaverous by comparison'' GuardianThe tranquillity of a rural backwater - SHATTERED!The ancient arts of medicine - EXPOSED!Her darling cleft-chinned doctor - FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE!It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands up for LOVE - a nurse that will make you fart with fear... - E-bokEngelska, 2013
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Goldsmiths Prize''Bold ... Wonderful'' Sunday Times''Hilarious ... Razor-sharp wit'' CosmopolitanEloise is too old to be called an orphan but insists she is bereft. With a cello, a car, some cats and a supply of Chicken Balti, she has devised for herself a half-alive hermitude. From her sinister country cottage she dispatches plaintive missives to the purveyors of evaporated milk and loo-roll holders. No one is too high, too powerful, to escape the fury of her attack.George is England''s only poet of ice hockey (not a full-time job). Pining for inspiration, he plays a lot of pinball and is chased around by his students. Indeed, all through the land people languish in a rage of bewilderment, undone by neighbours, the news and the heartless human tendancy to reduce the world to lists.Fierce, funny and strange (touching on the unseen links between donkeys, fruit-labelling and ferry disasters) Lucy Ellmann''s third novel reveals the stubborn nature of absurdity. Man or Mango? wanders through the darkest areas of human behaviour, and our century''s history, asking how to live - and how to love. - E-bokEngelska, 2013
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award.Winner of the Guardian First Book Award''exhilarating ... Lucy Ellmann is an original'' The GuardianSuzy Schwarz has learnt one or two things about life: other people know how you should live better than you do; sisters (especially Fran) can destroy your sanity and self-esteem; lust calls for careful timing because it rarely coincides with that of your partner; and most heartbreaking of all, parents die on you, leaving you grieving.The only thing that provides constant solace when times are bad (and they usually are) is food... - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year AwardBach, sculpture, plastic surgery, public speaking and a New York love story like no other - this is Lucy Ellmann's most extraordinary work of art to date'Bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf' Sunday Times'A wildly hilarious, modern film noir in fiction form' Sunday TelegraphIt’s Christmas Eve in Manhattan.Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. ‘Ya can’t sit there all day, buddy, looking up people’s skirts!’ chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet - Mimi! She kindly conjures for him the miracle of a taxi.Recuperating in his apartment with Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his life’s work, a List of Melancholy Things (Walmart, puppetry, Velcro, whale eyes, shrimp-eating contests...). But when he receives a dreaded invitation to address his old school, Mimi reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love.And, as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air. - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award.Winner of the Guardian First Book Award'exhilarating ... Lucy Ellmann is an original' The GuardianSuzy Schwarz has learnt one or two things about life: other people know how you should live better than you do; sisters (especially Fran) can destroy your sanity and self-esteem; lust calls for careful timing because it rarely coincides with that of your partner; and most heartbreaking of all, parents die on you, leaving you grieving.The only thing that provides constant solace when times are bad (and they usually are) is food... - Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize'Funny and furious ... Lucy Ellmann is clever, and very angry' The TimesIn an eminent London art institute - the Catafalque - Our Heroine Isabel (she of the obsessional habits, perpetual virginity and peculiar belly button) sit in wistful contemplation of Chardin's brushstrokes and the virile red socks of passing lecturers.Isabel's wholly imaginary love life (based on the romantic notions of authoress Babs Cartwheel) bears little resemblance to that of her flatmate Pol, who prefers to grip reality by the balls.Enter Robert, victim of an American childhood, kitsch memorabilia, academic rivalry, Pol's belly-dancing and Isabel's mute adoration. Can he be perverse enough not to despair? - Häftad, Engelska, 2020
203 kr
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize‘As lunatic and splenetic and distinctive as anything that will be published this year ... I begin to suspect she may be some sort of genius' Telegraph'It is somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer so angry and intelligent ... Doctors & Nurses is a novel bracingly alive, making more polite books cadaverous by comparison' GuardianThe tranquillity of a rural backwater - SHATTERED!The ancient arts of medicine - EXPOSED!Her darling cleft-chinned doctor - FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE!It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands up for LOVE - a nurse that will make you fart with fear... - Häftad, Engelska, 2020
203 kr
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize'Shrewd, passionate, outrageous and very, very funny' Sunday TimesDot used to think she was perfect, with her pointy nose, pink skin and blonde hair. But now she lives on Abalone Avenue with a husband who chases women and swordfish. And she has a rather icky Fatal Flaw. And the universe doesn't give a damn!So DOT decides to End It All. Will death be fast? Slow? EMBARRASING? But despite her valiant suicide by tea cosy followed by a jaunt to the morgue, DOT wakes up... - E-bokEngelska, 2019
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WINNER OF THE 2019 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2019 • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2019
"This book has its face pressed up against the pane of the present; its form mimics the way our minds move now toggling between tabs, between the needs of small children and aging parents, between news of ecological collapse and school shootings while somehow remembering to pay taxes and fold the laundry."—Parul Sehgal, New York Times
Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America''s ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son''s toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate, not even the Abominable Snowman? When are you allowed to start swearing?
With a torrent of consciousness and an intoxicating coziness, Ducks, Newburyport lays out a whole world for you to tramp around in, by turns frightening and funny. A heart-rending indictment of America''s barbarity, and a lament for the way we are blundering into environmental disaster, this book is both heresy―and a revolution in the novel.
- E-bokEngelska, 2021
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An Independent Best Book of 2021
“[Ellmann] delivers these diatribes with her signature wit and humor ... Each essay is accompanied by an illustration by artist Diana Hope, which complements the colorful nature of this collection. Fans of Ellmann will likely delight in Things Are Against Us.”—Chicago Review of Books
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted blockbuster Ducks, Newburyport returns with a rollicking new collection of satirical essays
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. As Yeats pointed out, things have a lot to answer for. These satirical essays jauntily tackle the obstinacy, incorrigibility, and recalcitrance of things, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s unimpressive descriptions of the construction of bobsleds and door latches, and the way we try to stand on our own two feet, put our best foot forward, remain footloose and fancy-free, and inevitably put our foot in it. They also cover the first suggestion the internet offers when you look up the word ‘women’ (spoiler: it’s shoes) and other annoyances (some fatal) of male supremacy, the nobility of buttons, and what the rejection of tourists by Jordanian donkeys should mean for global travel (stop!). Ingrid Bergman and Jane Austen come into it somewhere (Helen Gurley Brown was forcibly removed).
Early versions of some of these essays have appeared in international outlets of record, but others are brand-new and ready for your delectation.
Illustrations by Diana Hope.
- E-bokEngelska, 2022
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By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Reclusive Eloïse lives with her cats and her cello in an English country cottage, privately building a case against men, women, the Queen, Nazi list-makers, fluorescent lighting, her ex-flatmate Howard, nuclear bombs, and toilet-roll-holder manufacturers. She has a real thing about giant pumpkin growers too. George is an American poet, recently arrived in the UK. Struggling to finish an epic poem on ice hockey, he plays a lot of pinball and gets chased around by his students. Lost, lonely, and in love, he and Eloïse really should be together, yet it seems they may never meet up...
But Man or Mango? is more than a lament for unrequited transatlantic romance. Funny and furious, it is a scathing, searing, rollicking and vertiginous reflection on life and love in a belligerent world.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2021
128 kr
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- E-bokSpanska, 2023
190 kr
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El siglo xxi al completo, esa enormidad insoportable, contenido en una cocina de Ohio: tal es la impactante premisa de esta novela imposible, divertida, incomparable y total que nos arrastra como lectores por los rápidos del torrente de lo humano y nos transforma en un ama de casa que cuida de sus hijos, que quiere a su marido, que prepara innumerables tartas y rollos de canela, entre titulares, bebés, dudas, miedos, esperanzas, musicales de Hollywood, bienestar animal, seguros médicos, recetas de chili, preparacionistas, amenazas de pandemia, tiradores activos, recuerdos de la infancia, mascotas, la insuperable ausencia de la madre, de toda madre, asesinatos en masa, hijas adolescentes, cambio climático, Trump...; en definitiva, inmersa en el incesante relato del presente —polifónico y contradictorio— que vertebra este mundo de mundos, muchos de ellos irreconciliables, ciegos a la existencia de otros pero condenados a coexistir.Patos, Newburyport es un puzle que se asoma al inagotable galimatías de la cultura estadounidense, y en gran medida de la occidental; un reto colosal; una proeza narrativa de dimensiones épicas; y también un desnudo existencial que le ha valido a Lucy Ellmann multitud de premios y que la ha llevado a ser finalista del Premio Booker. Un destilado de lo que somos hoy o, más bien, quizá, una llamada, una súplica que apunta a lo que podríamos llegar a ser.Lucy Ellmann sido ampliamente reconocida por la crítica internacional: no ha dejado indiferente a nadie. La novela se ha comparado con el Ulises de Joyce por su inventiva y creatividad lingüistica y también con una Mrs. Dalloway de la era digital. - E-bokSvenska, 2022
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En hemmafru i Ohio bakar den ena pajen efter den andra och försöker samtidigt famna allt som inte går att greppa i ett liv. Hon oroar sig för sina barn, tänker på sitt äktenskap och på sina döda föräldrar. Men grubblerierna kan också röra afrikanska elefanter, hur lyckliga par egentligen har det, massförstörelsevapen, Donald Trump, klimatförändringar, sjukhuskostnader, skolskjutningar, katter och höns … Att beskriva Ankor, Newburyport är som att beskriva ett hav, eller en storm. Lucy Ellmann har skapat en vild medvetandeström som far mellan det meningsfulla och det meningslösa, mellan nuet och det förflutna – en revolutionerande roman som ser oändligheten i våra alldeles vanliga, begränsade liv.
Ankor, Newburyport har hyllats som en av vår tids stora romaner, i alla avseenden. Detta drygt tusensidiga verk nominerades till Bookerpriset och tilldelades The Goldsmiths Prize 2019 och etablerade Lucy Ellmann som både arvtagare till Joyce och Woolf och förnyare av romankonsten.
"Ellmann visar att det fanns – att det finns – stordåd kvar att göra. Ge hennes vardag en månad, helst på heltid, av ditt liv." Victor Malm, Expressen.
"…en bedrift" Dagens Nyheter
"en förgiftad, underhållande och alldeles nödvändig medvetandeström om dessa yttersta tider." Aftonbladet
"en säregen läsupplevelse" Norrköpings Tidningar
"Berörande och brett anlagd blir det också en bok som, den vindlande formen till trots, är så lätt att stiga in" Expressen
- Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019Bloomsbury Publishing is given over to the life of the mind – the entire building is adorned, insulated and overwhelmed by books. Yet the snacking habits of the Editorial Department have given rise to a problematic situation – the place has been invaded by mice!Into this mousey coup d’etat steps Tom, a marvellous heathen of a ginger farm cat who’s never seen a book in his life. His career begins promisingly, but his effectiveness soon comes into question. Tom settles so well into the Bloomsbury routine that he sleeps soundly in his armchair at night while the mice run riot upstairs. Tom, it seems, is not cut out for mousing. He is an intellectual, he is Tom the Obscure, and destined for greater things… - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Goldsmiths Prize'Bold ... Wonderful' Sunday Times'Hilarious ... Razor-sharp wit' CosmopolitanEloise is too old to be called an orphan but insists she is bereft. With a cello, a car, some cats and a supply of Chicken Balti, she has devised for herself a half-alive hermitude. From her sinister country cottage she dispatches plaintive missives to the purveyors of evaporated milk and loo-roll holders. No one is too high, too powerful, to escape the fury of her attack.George is England's only poet of ice hockey (not a full-time job). Pining for inspiration, he plays a lot of pinball and is chased around by his students. Indeed, all through the land people languish in a rage of bewilderment, undone by neighbours, the news and the heartless human tendancy to reduce the world to lists.Fierce, funny and strange (touching on the unseen links between donkeys, fruit-labelling and ferry disasters) Lucy Ellmann's third novel reveals the stubborn nature of absurdity. Man or Mango? wanders through the darkest areas of human behaviour, and our century's history, asking how to live - and how to love.
