Sweet Desserts - Softcover
Sisters Franny and Suzy Schwartz--having spent their childhood striving and competing for scarce parental affection--continue to be motivated by an unquenched thirst for security in their adulthoods
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Born in Illinois, Lucy Ellmann was 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 and Doctors & Nurses and, most recently, Mimi. She now lives in Edinburgh.
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Brief and acerbic, this first novel by a daughter of the late Richard Ellmann details the emotional ups and downs of two American sisters, Suzy and Franny Schwartz, who are daughters of a prominent Oxford art historian. Seemingly cynical from birth, the two women court unhappiness with a fatalism caused in part by the early death (from a "Neurological Event") of their mother, and ultimately confirmed by the lingering death of their kindly, self-effacing father, tacitly acknowledged as the only good guy around. The weaknesses of the sisters include food-binging/purging; sexual waywardness; professional muddle (each writes art criticism sporadically); and lovelessness. Making mistakes about men is their forte. Suzy, unwisely involved with Jeremy and unexpectedly pregnant, tartly notes, "If I was going to commit suicide as the result of an abortion, I would have to have the baby, it was decided by Jeremy." Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize in England, this funny but meager novel is arch to a fault, composed of bitter, staccato snippets of observations on the frustrations of life. Ellmann writes about art for the Times Literary Supplement.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1408850613
- ISBN 13 9781408850619
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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