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A review by jillysnz
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
4.0
I want to read something else by Lucy to compare her writing with this.
I think it is unnecessarily long, I read it as an ebook from the library so I could pick it up and put it down for quite short bouts, not a book you could easily carry around.
Once I got used to the style I quite liked it, the narrator oppressively returns to certain subjects and compulsively lists words; made me think of Tourettes. The lists often add to the snippets she is processing. Odd words flash in, sugar, and as a thought process it probably wouldn't be the word sugar, just the image.
I felt her anxiety, regret, guilt, love, sadness and loneliness.
The news headlines are mostly about guns, men with guns, schools and families and random shootings.
Helpless in a stupid world.
Newcomerstown is a real place!
I think it is unnecessarily long, I read it as an ebook from the library so I could pick it up and put it down for quite short bouts, not a book you could easily carry around.
Once I got used to the style I quite liked it, the narrator oppressively returns to certain subjects and compulsively lists words; made me think of Tourettes. The lists often add to the snippets she is processing. Odd words flash in, sugar, and as a thought process it probably wouldn't be the word sugar, just the image.
I felt her anxiety, regret, guilt, love, sadness and loneliness.
The news headlines are mostly about guns, men with guns, schools and families and random shootings.
Helpless in a stupid world.
Newcomerstown is a real place!