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Synopsis
Written by the author of "Sweet Desserts", which won "The Guardian" Fiction Prize in 1988. Isabel, a 31-year-old virgin with high hopes of art history as a discipline, leads the student struggle. When she meets a young lecturer she is troubled by the fact that she is not perfectly beautiful.
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Review
'Ellmann is an expert juggler with words. Her satire is deft, sophisticated and enchantingly surreal' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Funny and furious ... her merry little novel is a vehicle for disgust. Ellmann is clever, and very angry' -- The Times
'Reading Ellmann is like finding bits of broken glass in your lollipop' -- Evening Standard
'This is a novel like nothing else, an irresisible cocktail of satire, slapstick and tenderness' -- Cosmopolitan
About the Author
Lucy Ellmann's other novels are SWEET DESSERTS, which won the 1988 GUARDIAN Fiction Prize, MAN OR MANGO? and DOT IN THE UNIVERSE.
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0241131537
- ISBN 13 9780241131534
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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