This happened with Ducks, Newburyport.How do you write a review for such a spectacularly clever, original, magnificent novel? A unique and hopeful book about how vulnerable we are in what has become a fucking bizarre world to live in. Re-election. before they'd process ye ole Payment. Selfishness. Uncomfortable.
People, not bellybuttons. Environmental disaster. But this is to suggest the novel can be boiled down to one particular theme, when its entire premise refuses any kind of summary. School shootings? I'm a push over.
Having forgotten her cell phone, she waits in her car in the cold for help for an extended period before a tow-truck driver named Jesus saves her. Re-reading this one was an unusual experience because my wife was reading it at the same time, although she was about 700 pages ahead of me. by Galley Beggar Press Antonomasia not so much as breathed the title than I ran off and pre=order'd thus'un direct from the pub'r direct from England this book. Unfortunately we do not have a summary for this item at the moment. Later, while the lioness is away from her den, the cubs are found and taken by humans. Take banal reflections on everyday life, add in free-association word lists, throw in plot points on children’s books and vintage movies, fret about the state of the environment, insert viral news headlines, insert diner lingo, bemoan the state of US gun laws, insert anxieties about motherhood, enclose a few cleaning tips, throw in memories of bizarre dream sequences – rinse, repeat! The novel's main character is an unnamed middle-aged woman who lives in The narrator's stream-of-consciousness takes the form of an internal dialog in which she ponders a variety of topics, ideas, recollections, and individual words in an almost-continuous list that spans the entire novel. I am too busy to write a review of this incredible book, but a couple of things just to counter some points I have seen made elsewhere that I am noting as I go: I am too busy to write a review of this incredible book, but a couple of things just to counter some points I have seen made elsewhere that I am noting as I go: There is a feeling these days, living in the USA - call it stress, call it anxiety, call it embarrassment or more realistically it's shame, call it deadly, call it urgency and laziness all together, wonderwoman and malaise rolled into one, call it traumatic far too often, call it what you will, this book just nails it so perfectly that it is both a joy and a little bit painful to read. While it's intimidating to read a 1000 page novel that’s mostly narrated in one unbroken sentence, “Ducks, Newburyport” is also hypnotic for the rhythm it develops, the frequent Laugh-Out-Loud humour and the moving way it builds a portrait of the life of an Ohio housewife and her many anxieties living in America today. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Uncomfortable truth. I believe in you. I still have a few quibbles, mainly that although much of the 'stream-of-consciousness' format makes sense and is often clever and humorous, there are also times that there are non-sequiturs or words/lists that come totally out of left field... it's not necessarily the length that disturbed me as the fact so much of it is stellar, that those times when I felt the author was a bit indulgent... bugged me. —Thrillist "Ducks is a technical There is a feeling these days, living in the USA - call it stress, call it anxiety, call it embarrassment or more realistically it's shame, call it deadly, call it urgency and laziness all together, wonderwoman and malaise rolled into one, call it traumatic far too often, call it what you will, this book just nails it so perfectly that it is both a joy and a little bit painful to read. Stream of consciousness. While accepting that nothing I can write here will do it justice, I will say, I came to Ducks, Newburyport with some trepidation. What can I do? There, you have it. Do you believe in me too? Perfectionism. Ear infection. The algorithm to Ducks, Newsburyport.Take banal reflections on everyday life, add in free-association word lists, throw in plot points on children’s books and vintage movies, fret about the state of the environment, insert viral news headlines, insert diner lingo, bemoan the state of US gun laws, insert anxieties about motherhood, enclose a few cleaning tips, throw in memories of bizarre dream sequences – rinse, repeat!