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Things Are Against Us

Things Are Against Us

by Lucy Ellmann

Biblioasis ·2021 ·222 pages
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"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." Lucy Ellmann's essay collection is on the way. The essays explore a variety of topics and key figures including feminism, environmental catastrophe, labour strikes, sex strikes, Little House On The Prairie, Donald Trump, Alfred Hitchcock and Virginia Woolf.


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"Attentively negotiating a bleak world, the sentences remain joyous constructions ..."

Catherine Taylor· The Guardian Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"As a polemic against the patriarchy, Ellmann's collection has coherence, but individually, the essays veer from the incisive to outdated ..."

Baya Simons· Financial Times Read review ↗ Maybe Someday

"As much of the world leaves the pandemic behind...our nostalgia for the past may well be tempered by the recognition of what our world was actually like before."

Jessica Loudis· Times Literary Supplement Read review ↗ Near the Top

"In this offbeat essay collection, novelist Ellmann...addresses complex systemic ills alongside petty grievances in an acerbic and hilarious litany of complaints ..."

Publishers Weekly Read review ↗ Near the Top

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