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Unbeknownst to Eloise, her long-lost lover is actually in England, on a creative-writing sinecure that is only making his own writing--an ill-fated script and an ice-hockey-fixated epic--worse, not to mention turning him Anglophobic. As far as George is concerned, the British are video-crazed, sex-avoiding, and deeply narcissistic. For one thing, "most of Benjamin Britten's (incredible) reputation here's due to his name being BRITTEN." When these star-crossed lovers finally meet again in Connemara--along with a giant-vegetable-growing burglar and letter bomber; a man whose wife drowned while she was rescuing their pet ("It wasn't that their dog wasn't worth saving," he thinks, "a gentle fellow who never barked"); and various other misfits including three old ladies on a shoplifting spree--the results are spectacular. (Think Deep Impact, but on a smaller scale.) As Ellmann's third novel careens from the deadly serious (the Holocaust) to the deeply absurd (mangoes are better than men because they don't "lord it over everybody at committee meetings"), it may well exasperate some readers. Others, however, will be charmed by this fruitful, extreme concoction. --Kerry Fried
"Hilarious at times, tragic at others.... Crackling, fiercely original language and humor." --Sarah Coleman, San Francisco Chronicle
"A rambling, sometimes very funny rant about love and loneliness.... Ellmann excels at describing the dynamics of getting-past-your-prime singlehood." --Lisa Zeidner, The New York Times Book Review
"A whimsical medley of dysfunctional personalities, budding romances, and encyclopedic facts...Ellmann keeps the narrative plates spinning until, in a finale perfectly pitched between comedy and catharsis, she lets them resoundingly crash." --Entertainment Weekly
"A writer of piquant cross-grained oddity. Her lines are narrow, yet a lot happens between them." --Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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