Ducks, Newburyport
by Lucy Ellmann
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2019 | Shortlist |
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction | 2019 | Winner |
About This Book
Lucy Ellmann's seventh novel is a single sentence of over a thousand pages, following the relentless free-association of an Ohio housewife and amateur baker as she processes the contemporary United States — its food culture, political paranoia, ecological dread, and domestic routine — interspersed with a counterpoint narration of a mountain lioness. The novel won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
About the Author
Lucy Ellmann is an American-British novelist born in Evanston, Illinois in 1956, the daughter of literary critic Richard Ellmann. She has lived in Scotland for much of her adult life. Her debut novel Sweet Desserts appeared in 1988, followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (1991), Man or Mango? Read more →
