Things Are Against Us

By: Lucy Ellmann

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Synopsis: ‘There are three kinds of strike I’d recommend: a housework strike, a labour strike, and a sex strike. I can’t wait for the first two.’Things Are Against Us is the first collection of essays from Booker Prize-shortlisted Lucy Ellmann. Bold, angry, despairing and very, very funny, these essays cover everything – from matriarchy to environmental catastrophe to Little House on the Prairie. Ellmann calls for a moratorium on air travel, rages against bras, gives Doris Day and Agatha Christie a drubbing, and pleads for sanity in a world that – well, a world that spent four years in the company of Donald Trump, that ‘tremendously sick, terrible, nasty, lowly, truly pathetic, reckless, sad, weak, lazy, incompetent, third-rate, clueless, not smart, dumb as a rock, all talk, wacko, zero-chance lying liar’.Things Are Against Us is electric. It’s vital. These are essays bursting with energy, and reading them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 170 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781913111212
Related ISBNs:: 9781913111137
Publisher:: Galley Beggar Press / Faber & Faber
Date of Addition:: 07/02/21
Copyrighted By:: Lucy Ellmann
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts, Humor, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.