By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport , a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Funny and furious, it is a scathing, searing, rollicking and vertiginous reflection on life and love in a belligerent world..
But Man or Mango? is more than a Lament for unrequited transatlantic romance.
Lost, lonely, and in love, he and Eloïse really should be together, yet it seems they may never meet up...
Struggling to finish an epic poem on ice hockey, he plays a lot of pinball and gets chased around by his students.
George is an American poet, recently arrived in the UK.
She has a real thing about giant pumpkin growers too.
Reclusive Eloïse lives with her cats and her cello in an English country cottage, privately building a case against men, women, the Queen, Nazi list-makers, fluorescent lighting, her ex-flatmate Howard, nuclear bombs, and toilet-roll-holder manufacturers.
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport , a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love
