By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year AwardBach, sculpture, plastic surgery, public speaking and a New York love story like no other this is Lucy Ellmanns most extraordinary work of art to dateBolshy, lifeaffirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf Sunday TimesA wildly hilarious, modern film noir in fiction form Sunday TelegraphIts Christmas Eve in Manhattan.Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. Ya cant sit there all day, buddy, looking up peoples skirts! chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet Mimi! She kindly conjures for him the miracle of a taxi.Recuperating in his apartment with Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his lifes work, a List of Melancholy Things (Walmart, puppetry, Velcro, whale eyes, shrimpeating contests...). But when he receives a dreaded invitation to address his old school, Mimi reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love.And, as their lovemaking reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air.

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: FA; Weight: 410 g; Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 25

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