Dot in the Universe - Hardcover

Lucy Ellmann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747562547 ISBN 13: 9780747562542

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

It's your worst nightmare: instead of being dead, you're alive! Seen from above, Dot is just another dot, barely distinguishable from a bug, a berry, or gum on the pavement. Up close, she has a magnificent but mysterious hubby, a collection of tea cosies swiped from old ladies, and the perfect face for her era: tight-lipped, pointy-nosed, pink-skinned, blonde-haired. She also has a Fatal Flaw. So Dot decides to End It All. But Dot BLOWS it! A hilarious and poignant journey through our puny universe, this is a masterpiece of disquiet - Lucy Ellmann at the height of her powers.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy Ellmann is the daughter of Richard Ellmann. She was born in America and moved to England when she was ten. She is the author of three novels, MAN OR MANGO?, VARYING DEGREES OF HOPELESSNESS and SWEET DESSERTS, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize. Lucy Ellmann lives in Edinburgh with her husband, the author Tod McEwen.

Review:

'Ellmann's solution to Dot's terrible knowledge makes this a raging, funny book' Marie Claire 'An anarchic flight of fancy, stuffed with ideas and opinions that are shrewd, passionate, outrageous and very, very funny' Sunday Telegraph 'Original, funny and slickly written ... an angry and imaginative tour de force, salted with caustic insights and sweetened with pathos' Daily Mail 'One of the funniest, most mordant and perfectly formed books I've read' Ali Smith

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0747562547
• ISBN 13: 9780747562542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208