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Dot in the Universe

Dot in the Universe

by Lucy Ellmann (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.22
Synopsis

Dot used to think she was perfect, with her pointy nose, pink skin and blonde hair. But now she lives on Abalone Avenue with a husband who chases women and swordfish. And she has a rather icky Fatal Flaw. And the universe doesn't give a damn! So DOT decides to End It All. Will death be fast? Slow? Embarrasing? But despite her valiant suicide by tea cosy followed by a jaunt to the morgue, Dot wakes up.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05 Jan 2004
ISBN 10: 0747568030
ISBN 13: 9780747568032
Book Overview: This new novel from Lucy Ellmann was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2003 'Lucy Ellmann's delightfully dotty novel is a fantastical flight ... reading Ellmann is to be taken on a subversive adventure by a bad-tempered fairy' Daily Telegraph 'Ellmann's wild humour and endlessly inventive imagination are as vehement as her subject matter' The Times
 Prizes: Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2003.

Media Reviews
'Ellmann's solution to Dot's terrible knowledge makes this a raging, funny book' Marie Claire 'An anarchic flight of fancy, stuffed with ideas and opinions that are shrewd, passionate, outrageous and very, very funny' Sunday Telegraph 'Original, funny and slickly written ... an angry and imaginative tour de force, salted with caustic insights and sweetened with pathos' Daily Mail 'One of the funniest, most mordant and perfectly formed books I've read' Ali Smith
Author Bio
Lucy Ellmann was born in America and moved to England when she was ten. She is the author of three novels, MAN OR MANGO?, VARYING DEGREES OF HOPELESSNESS and SWEET DESSERTS, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize. Lucy Ellmann lives in Edinburgh with her husband, the author Todd McEwen.