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Man or Mango?

Man or Mango?

by Lucy Ellmann (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $3.48

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    Paperback 1998

    $3.29
Synopsis

Eloise and George, a pair of star-crossed lovers...Eloise spends her time avoiding the human race and making lists of damaging encounters and the length of time it takes her to recover from them: 'Speaking to postman: half an hour...Preparing to make phonecall (days) indefinite'. Yet she is also desperately yearning for George, her sometime lover, an American poet embarked on an epic of ice-hockey. Equally besotted, George has pursued Eloise to England. When the two are reunited by chance the results are truly explosive...

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 04 Feb 1999
ISBN 10: 0747259054
ISBN 13: 9780747259053

Media Reviews
'A faultless perfomance... Brilliant comedy' -- Time Out 'Bold, wonderful... I shall read it again' -- Times 'Lucy Ellmann is brilliant... So read it' -- Victoria Glendinning, Literary Review 'Dazzling... Writing of such a high calibre... Flashes of humour and understanding so brilliant' -- Susie Boyt, Independent
Author Bio
Lucy Ellmann is the daughter of Richard Ellmann, biographer of Wilde, and writer Mary Ellmann. Lucy was born in Illinois but moved to England at the age of thirteen when her father came to take up his chair at Oxford. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, was the winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness.