num_pages: 1022
description: LATTICING one cherry pie after another an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children her dead parents African elephants the bedroom rituals of happy couples Weapons of Mass Destruction and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. Is there some trick to surviving survivalists? School shootings? Medical debts? Franks n beans?A scorching indictment of Americas barbarity past and present and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster Ducks Newburyport is a heresy a wonderand a revolution in the novel.Its also very very funny.
language: English
title: Ducks, Newburyport
publisher: Galley Beggar Press