Things Are Against Us

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Publisher's Synopsis

“There are three forms of strike I’d recommend: a housework strike, a labor strike, and a sex strike. I can’t wait for the first two.”

Things Are Against Us is the first collection of essays from Booker Prize-shortlisted author Lucy Ellmann. It is everything you might expect from such a fiery writer – which is to say, entirely unexpected. Provocative, smart, angry, wise, and very, very funny, the essays in Things Are Against Us cover everything – from feminism to environmental catastrophe; labour strikes to sex strikes; Little House On The Prairie to Donald Trump. Lucy calls for a moratorium on air travel ('You'd think a global pandemic would be an opportunity to reconsider the whole crazy business'). She rails against bras ('Men have managed to eroticise bras, but THEY DON'T HAVE TO WEAR THEM'). She gives Agatha Christie short shrift ('atrocious but ideal for people with colds'). And she pleads for sanity in a world that – well. A world that has spent four years in the company of Donald Trump. ('That big fat loser of a president, that nasty, sick, terrible, lowly, truly pathetic, reckless, sad, weak, lazy, incompetent, third-rate, clueless, not smart, dumb as a rock, all talk, wacko, fourthrate goofball and all-round low-life'). Things Are Against Us is electric. It's vital. These are essays bursting with energy, and reading them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times.

You don't have to agree with everything Ellman says to find this supple, provocative volume invigorating Hephzibah Anderson

Book information

ISBN: 9781913111137
Publisher: Galley Beggar Press
Imprint: Galley Beggar Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 824.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 170
Weight: 360g
Height: 194mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 18mm