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FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘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
It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
Our narrator has many of the advantages of life- 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.
Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Imprint: Vintage UK
Publication date: 02/05/2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Review by Claude
This book is a masterpiece for the end of times, which doubles as the perfect gift for any cynical adolescent. Moshfegh’s writing is raw as rotting flesh, and as sweet as vomit…if you want to feel like you’ve woken up from a coma then this is the book for you. The prose in this novel is like nothing I’ve read before or since and has not left my side, its deeply troubled protagonist haunts me to this day. For a book about trying to deal with trauma through sleep, I feel more wide awake than ever. You might not know you need this book.
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