Synopses & Reviews
It's on the the corner of Madison and 34th Street that Mimi opens, with Harrison Hanafan, an eminent Manhattan plastic surgeon, slipping on the Christmas Eve ice, slaloming between fire hydrants and the calves of fellow pedestrians, and spraining his ankle. Harrison has just dumped his girlfriend, for about 952 good reasons -- has nearly sworn off female companionship forever -- but when a comely premenopausal woman helps him to his feet, it's the start of a grand romance: one that will blossom through MLK day, Groundhog Day, the cliches of Valentine's Day, and the Ides of March, will absorb shocking revelations, will be interrupted by misunderstandings and yearned for through terrible tragedy, and will finally triumph, with the belated transformation of our hero, proving himself worthy of the title and his very own heroine, the incredible, incomparable, indomitable Mimi.Lucy Ellmann returns with her characteristically zany, high-wire prose, crafting a narrative that is funny, thought-provoking, sexy, sweet, and ultimately hugely satisfying.
Synopsis
A whirlwind Manhattan romance like you've never read before from the Booker Prize nominated author of Ducks, Newburyport.
It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as he's never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the miracle of a taxi.
Harrison recuperates with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat. Then it's back to rhinoplasties, liposuction, and the peccadilloes of his obnoxious colleagues. It is only when he collides again with that strangely helpful woman that things take a wild and revolutionary turn.
Sparkling, polemical, irreverent, slippery, and sexy, Mimi is a love story, a call to arms, and Lucy Ellmann's most tender and dazzling book. It's also the feminist novel of the century. (So far.)
Synopsis
It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as he's never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the miracle of a taxi.
Harrison recuperates with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat. Then it's back to rhinoplasties, liposuction, and the peccadilloes of his obnoxious colleagues. It is only when he collides again with that strangely helpful woman that things take a wild and revolutionary turn.
Sparkling, polemical, irreverent, slippery, and sexy, Mimi is a love story, a call to arms, and Lucy Ellmann's most tender and dazzling book. It's also the feminist novel of the century. (So far.)
Synopsis
It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as he's never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the miracle of a taxi. Harrison recuperates with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat. Then it's back to rhinoplasties, liposuction, and the peccadilloes of his obnoxious colleagues. It is only when he collides again with that strangely helpful woman that things take a wild and revolutionary turn. Sparkling, polemical, irreverent, slippery, and sexy, Mimi is a love story, a call to arms, and Lucy Ellmann's most tender and dazzling book. It's also the feminist novel of the century. (So far.)
About the Author
Lucy Ellmann was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of esteemed literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1988, and her novel Dot in the Universe was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing and the Believer Book Award. She currently lives in Scotland.