Mimi

Mimi

by Lucy Ellmann (Author)

Synopsis

It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. `Ya can't sit there all day, buddy, looking up people's skirts!' chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet - Mimi! She kindly conjures for him the miracle of a taxi. Recuperating in his apartment with Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his life's work, a List of Melancholy Things (Walmart, puppetry, Velcro, whale eyes, shrimp-eating contests...). But when he receives a dreaded invitation to address his old school, Mimi reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love. And, as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 13 Feb 2014

ISBN 10: 1408833573
ISBN 13: 9781408833575
Book Overview: Bach, sculpture, plastic surgery, public speaking and a New York love story like no other - this is Lucy Ellmann's most extraordinary work of art to date

Media Reviews
Bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf * Sunday Telegraph *
A wildly hilarious, modern film noir in fiction form * Sunday Telegraph *
A true original * Financial Times *
Neurotic, crazy and fun, with a love story, too * Vogue *
A call to arms that is light-hearted and playful but also practical ... Almost as much a tract of female wish fulfilment as Fifty Shades of Grey * Literary Review *
Mimi is ringing with love and rage and hope. Ellmann's best sentences are so springy and rhythmic, they make you think of a Slinky coursing down the sweet spot of a staircase, happy as Larry * Independent *
Funny, angry, sarcastic and utterly individual * Observer *
Feels like Woody Allen reading Dr Seuss ... The writing is exquisite and it has a cinematic momentum and enviable self-belief that sweeps you up and carries you along ... I loved every minute * Sunday Telegraph *
Author Bio
Born in Illinois, Lucy Ellmann was dragged to England as a teenager. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. It was followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango? A Lament, Dot in the Universe and Doctors & Nurses. She now lives in Edinburgh.