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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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'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
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'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
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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Book Description Blue Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Trisha Rafferty (DJ) (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Lucy Ellmann's second novel follows her success with 'Sweet Desserts', winner of the Guardian Fictrion Prize in 1988. 181 pp. plus: The Beginning of the End, The Whole History of My Life. Light blue cloth covered boards have siver gilt text on spine. Spine ends rubbed, fon bottom ffep, ow book is as new. Unclipped ( £ 13.99) DJ has bit of edge wear, ow, it too is as new. Bookseller's Inventory # 133275. Seller Inventory # 003275
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