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My Year of Rest and Relaxation: Ottessa Moshfegh

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: Ottessa Moshfegh

by OttessaMoshfegh (Author), Ottessa Moshfegh (Author)

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Synopsis

A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman's experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn't just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate - dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 - this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America's major young writers working at the height of her powers.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 12 Jul 2018
ISBN 10: 1787330419
ISBN 13: 9781787330412
Book Overview: The second novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted US enfant terrible

Media Reviews
Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... [My Year of Rest and Relaxation] is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer. * Vogue *
The book that everybody's talking about... I read it and was entranced. * The Times *
The superabundantly talented... Moshfegh's sentences are piercing and vixenish... she is always a deep pleasure to read. * New York Times *
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is whip-smart, continuously compelling, and acerbic in all the right ways. * Daily Telegraph *
Ottessa Moshfegh's unnerving and compelling new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation... percussively hammered out in her flawless, rhythmic prose... concludes with a startlingly, unexpectedly beautiful passage... radical, urgent, and more painfully wise than perhaps we would like to admit. -- Sam Byers * Times Literary Supplement *
A relentlessly savage fable of privilege and pain... While we're laughing, we feel disgust. It's a combination that makes for diamond-hard entertainment. * Guardian *
Electrifying... [Moshfegh] is adept at crafting compelling female characters who violate the rules of femininity... Moshfegh's protagonist is an unlikely revolutionary. * Vanity Fair *
[Ottessa Moshfegh] has been hailed in America as a saviour of literary fiction... she specialises in anti-heroines who won't jump through the usual hoops of womanhood... [My Year of Rest of Relaxation is] the kind of wickedly funny book you can tear through in an afternoon. * Evening Standard *
Ottessa Moshfegh's second novel is as arresting as her first... A study of alienation and dislocation, Ms Moshfegh's compelling novel is filled with warped desires and reckless pursuits, but also with wisdom and warmth. * Economist *
An arresting, original read... [Moshfegh] has a singular instinct for the jangled interiority of loners and outsiders... a scoop direct from the places to which the human mind plummets in private... This is a novel of immense and yet very ordinary human sadness. That is a lot to achieve. * Irish Times *
Author Bio
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book, the novella, McGlue, was recently published by Vintage. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her collection of stories, Homesick for Another World, was published in 2017.