Dot in the Universe
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2013
288 pages
978-1-4088-4081-8 (ISBN)
Description
By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize
'Shrewd, passionate, outrageous and very, very funny' Sunday Times
Dot used to think she was perfect, with her pointy nose, pink skin and blonde hair. But now she lives on Abalone Avenue with a husband who chases women and swordfish. And she has a rather icky Fatal Flaw. And the universe doesn't give a damn!
So DOT decides to End It All. Will death be fast? Slow? EMBARRASING? But despite her valiant suicide by tea cosy followed by a jaunt to the morgue, DOT wakes up...
'Shrewd, passionate, outrageous and very, very funny' Sunday Times
Dot used to think she was perfect, with her pointy nose, pink skin and blonde hair. But now she lives on Abalone Avenue with a husband who chases women and swordfish. And she has a rather icky Fatal Flaw. And the universe doesn't give a damn!
So DOT decides to End It All. Will death be fast? Slow? EMBARRASING? But despite her valiant suicide by tea cosy followed by a jaunt to the morgue, DOT wakes up...
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-4081-8 (9781408840818)
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part One
- Dot on the Horizon
- Dot on the Carpet
- The Ratty Tea Cosies of Jaywick Sands
- Dot in the Kitchen
- Dot in the Distance, Seen from the Side
- Dot in Pompeii
- Dot in Danger!
- The Traumatic Year of 1996
- Dumping the Body
- Dot on Trial
- A Taste for Blood
- Dot Reborn
- Dot Reborn (Again)
- The Man in the Street
- Shit in the City
- Dot as a Decimal Point in the Wrong Place
- John Finally goes Swordfishing!
- Part Two
- The Cloaca Maxima
- Dot in the Underworld
- Infinite Dots
- A Skeleton Band
- Death Stinks
- Death is Debatable!
- The Thing about the Underworld
- O Egg, O Egg
- Dot Reborn!
- Dot's Infancy
- Fuck Science
- Dot Wins A Prize!
- Part Three
- Dot Reborn (Again!)
- Dot's Infancy
- George Washington as a Baby
- The Wholly Irrelevant Year of the Barbecue
- The Best Game in Town
- Onions & Lemons
- Limbo Land
- Destruction and Dismay
- Dot the Body
- Removing the Thymus
- Dots on the Body
- A Single Solitary Dot
- Footnotes
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- eCopyright
