Title: Sweet Desserts (A Virago V) - 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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Lucy Ellmann was born in Illinois in 1956 and moved to the UK at the age of 13. She went to Falmouth and Canterbury art schools, the Courtauld Institute and Essex University.
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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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- PublisherVIRAGO PRESS LTD
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 186049479X
- ISBN 13 9781860494796
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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