The Reality Effect
Jon Day: 'Did I think this, or was it Lucy Ellmann?', 5 December 2019
Ducks, Newburyport
by Lucy Ellmann.
Galley Beggar, 1030 pp., £13.99, September 2019,978 1 913111 98 4 Show More
by Lucy Ellmann.
Galley Beggar, 1030 pp., £13.99, September 2019,
“... shyness meant she would always hate it, that both her parents were academics (Ellmann’s father, Richard, was Joyce’s biographer, her mother, Mary, a celebrated Tennyson scholar). The unspooling of all of this is intercut with shorter sections, written in full sentences, describing the journey of a cougar that sets out across Ohio to find her stolen ... ”