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A review by readbyrodkelly
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
Ducks, Newburyport,
an interior monologue unfurled as a single sentence over the course of nearly 1,000 pages, a Great American Novel of maximalist excess & stylistic exuberance, is, plot-wise, quite a straightforward story that is deeply concerned with motherhood: its glories & failures; its inroads & peripheralities; its tenderness & exigency; there is, also, the moving & beautifully rendered exploration of filial grief for a lost mother (
an interior monologue unfurled as a single sentence over the course of nearly 1,000 pages, a Great American Novel of maximalist excess & stylistic exuberance, is, plot-wise, quite a straightforward story that is deeply concerned with motherhood: its glories & failures; its inroads & peripheralities; its tenderness & exigency; there is, also, the moving & beautifully rendered exploration of filial grief for a lost mother (