{"product_id":"9781922458070","title":"Things Are Against Us","description":"Author: Ellmann, Lucy\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922458070\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jul 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA scorching collection of essays from the Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eDucks, Newburyport\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere are three forms of strike I'd recommend: a housework strike, a labour strike, and a sex strike. I can't wait for the first two.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe first collection of essays from Lucy Ellmann, \u003ci\u003eThings Are Against Us\u003c\/i\u003e is everything you might expect from such a fiery writer-which is to say, entirely unexpected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBold, angry, despairing and very, very funny, these essays cover everything from matriarchy to environmental catastrophe to \u003ci\u003eLittle House on the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e to Agatha Christie. Ellmann calls for a moratorium on air travel, rails against bras, and pleads for sanity in a world that-well, a world that spent four years in the company of Donald Trump, that 'tremendously sick, terrible, nasty, lowly, truly pathetic, reckless, sad, weak, lazy, incompetent, third-rate, clueless, not smart, dumb as a rock, all talk, wacko, zero-chance lying liar'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThings Are Against Us\u003c\/i\u003e is electric. It's vital. These are essays bursting with energy. Reading them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198007849118,"sku":"UBD-9781922458070","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922458070.jpg?v=1787745249","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922458070","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}