Mimi
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2013
256 pages
978-1-4088-3358-2 (ISBN)
Description
By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award
Bach, sculpture, plastic surgery, public speaking and a New York love story like no other - this is Lucy Ellmann's most extraordinary work of art to date
'Bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf' Sunday Times
'A wildly hilarious, modern film noir in fiction form' Sunday Telegraph
It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan.
Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. 'Ya can't sit there all day, buddy, looking up people's 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 life's work, a List of Melancholy Things (Walmart, puppetry, Velcro, whale eyes, shrimp-eating 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 love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air.
Bach, sculpture, plastic surgery, public speaking and a New York love story like no other - this is Lucy Ellmann's most extraordinary work of art to date
'Bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf' Sunday Times
'A wildly hilarious, modern film noir in fiction form' Sunday Telegraph
It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan.
Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. 'Ya can't sit there all day, buddy, looking up people's 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 life's work, a List of Melancholy Things (Walmart, puppetry, Velcro, whale eyes, shrimp-eating 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 love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3358-2 (9781408833582)
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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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Christmas Eve, 2010
- Christmas Day
- New Year's Eve
- New Year's Day, 2011
- Martin luther king Jr. Day
- Groundhog Dayh
- Valentine's Day
- Presidents' Day
- Daylight Saving Time
- The Ides of March
- The First Day of Spring
- Full Moon, May 17th
- Catastrobury
- Memorial Day
- Innisfree
- Flag Day
- Full Moon, June 15th
- Labor Day
- Appendix
- Attacks on Odalisque Man
- Recipes
- Songs
- Bridget Hanafan: The Retrospective
- Cacophony
- Manifesto of the Odalisque Revolution
- Table of Contents
- 1. Virtue and Chewing Gum
- 2. All Men are Terrorists
- 3. Free the Odalisques!
- 4. We'll all have Chicken and Dumplings when she comes
- 5. The Statue of Liberty is a Woman
- 6. Instructions to Men of Feeling
- Acknowledgments
- eCopyright
