{"product_id":"man-or-mango-1","title":"Man or Mango?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the author of \u003ci\u003eDucks, Newburyport\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Goldsmiths Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBold ... Wonderful'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilarious ... Razor-sharp wit'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEloise is too old to be called an orphan but insists she is bereft. With a cello, a car, some cats and a supply of Chicken Balti, she has devised for herself a half-alive hermitude. From her sinister country cottage she dispatches plaintive missives to the purveyors of evaporated milk and loo-roll holders. No one is too high, too powerful, to escape the fury of her attack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge is England's only poet of ice hockey (not a full-time job). Pining for inspiration, he plays a lot of pinball and is chased around by his students. Indeed, all through the land people languish in a rage of bewilderment, undone by neighbours, the news and the heartless human tendancy to reduce the world to lists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFierce, funny and strange (touching on the unseen links between donkeys, fruit-labelling and ferry disasters) Lucy Ellmann's third novel reveals the stubborn nature of absurdity. \u003ci\u003eMan or Mango?\u003c\/i\u003e wanders through the darkest areas of human behaviour, and our century's history, asking how to live - and how to love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32139955208275,"sku":"9781526623515","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781526623515_d05d588d-fcf2-459b-a8c0-068d3d24d788.jpg?v=1765247412","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/man-or-mango-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}