Man or Mango?

By: Lucy Ellmann

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Paperback | 5 December 2019

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224 Pages

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By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award

Eloise is a wreck: jobless, friendless, burdened by Damaging Encounters with milkmen. She proclaims herself a hermit, and reduces her contact with the outside world to written communication with the Queen and manufacturers of toilet-roll holders. Yet she yearns hopelessly for roguish American poet George. Freed from the ties of marriage and lettuce soup, George has just arrived in England with the vague intention of finding Eloise, but has been waylaid by pinball.

Fierce and funny, Man or Mango? is a seething, searing, rollicking reflection on love, death, sex, men – and mangoes.

About the Author

Lucy Ellmann is the author of Ducks, Newburyport, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award. She was born in Illinois and dragged to England as a teenager. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. It was followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango? A Lament, Dot in the Universe, Doctors & Nurses and Mimi. She now lives in Edinburgh.

Industry Reviews

Bold ... Wonderful * The Times *
Hilarious ... Razor-sharp wit * Cosmopolitan *
Dazzling ... writing of such high calibre ... flashes of humour and understanding so brilliant -- Susie Boyt * Independent *
Very funny ... a writer of wit and invention ... there is no risk she will not take * New Statesman *
Lucy Ellmann is brilliant ... so read it -- Victoria Glendinning * Literary Review *
Deeply moving ... startlingly original * ELLE *

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