{"product_id":"unlucky-mel-a-novel-hardback-9781501776304","title":"Unlucky Mel; A Novel (Hardback) 9781501776304","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnlucky Mel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAggeliki Pelekidis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501776304\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA witty, inside look at academia.\u003c\/p\u003e (The National Herald) \u003cp\u003eWhat results in Pelekidis's debut novel is nothing short of a wildly humorous, sometimes tragic, and always relatable journey of a writer who finds herself sacrificing more than she expected.\u003c\/p\u003e (Tupelo Quarterly) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnlucky Mel\u003c\/i\u003e is balm for any reader who has attempted a PhD. Its twinned plots––dissertation and dementia––express the imprisoned, infantilized state many humanities graduate students experience.\u003c\/p\u003e (Harvard Review) \u003cp\u003eEloquent, erudite, original, memorable, and a fun read from start to finish, \u003ci\u003eUnlucky Mel\u003c\/i\u003e is raised by its author to a significant level of literary excellence, making it especially and unreservedly recommended for community and college\/university library Contemporary American Literary Fiction collections.\u003c\/p\u003e (Midwest Book Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnlucky Mel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, PhD candidate Melody Hollings is in the final year of her creative writing program in upstate New York. Her dream life of landing the perfect academic job somewhere far away from her small hometown and publishing her first novel is so close to becoming a reality.\u003c\/b\u003e But first she has to finish writing that book. Oh, and graduate. To do both, she needs her good friend Ben to reciprocate all the help she's given him over the years on his writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut when Mel's widowed father starts acting strangely, she is thrown. After chalking it up to a dramatic attempt to manipulate her into moving back in with him, she discovers that he really is suffering from dementia. Now she'll need to stay local to care for him. Her dream is dying and her best option is to win a postgraduation fellowship through her alma mater.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Despite all the upheaval in Mel's life, rather than helping her, Ben turns on her in a shocking betrayal. For the first time, Mel has a nemesis! The stress of caring for her father, teaching too many students, and living with so much uncertainty over her future escalates Mel's desire for retribution—until one night, she discovers an opportunity to ruin Ben's reputation.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnlucky Mel\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, funny debut in which Pelekidis explores the lengths we're willing to go to in order to even the score and the ways in which women are often expected to sacrifice their professional ambitions for the men in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003cbr\u003e 7. \u003cbr\u003e 8. \u003cbr\u003e 9. \u003cbr\u003e 10. \u003cbr\u003e 11. \u003cbr\u003e 12. \u003cbr\u003e 13. \u003cbr\u003e 14. \u003cbr\u003e 15. \u003cbr\u003e 16. \u003cbr\u003e 17. \u003cbr\u003e 18. \u003cbr\u003e 19. \u003cbr\u003e 20. \u003cbr\u003e 21. \u003cbr\u003e 22. \u003cbr\u003e 23. \u003cbr\u003e 24. \u003cbr\u003e 25. \u003cbr\u003e 26. \u003cbr\u003e 27. \u003cbr\u003e 28. \u003cbr\u003e 29. \u003cbr\u003e 30. \u003cbr\u003e 31. \u003cbr\u003e 32. \u003cbr\u003e 33. \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Three Hills","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608270926104,"sku":"9781501776304","price":21.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unlucky-mel-a-novel-hardback-9781501776304","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}