![]() On the surface ,our narrator has everything you could want in life. 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.īlackly 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. My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel de Moshfegh, Ottessa en - ISBN 10: 0525522131 - ISBN 13: 9780525522133 - Penguin Books - 2019 - Tapa. THE TIKTOK SENSATION Read THE razor-sharp satire that everyone is talking about. My Year of Rest and Relaxation takes place in 2001, when a pretty young Columbia graduate with an easy job at an art gallery decides to take a year off just to sleep. If that sounds like a deal breaker, consider yourself warned. 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. An Amazon Best Book of July 2018: Not a whole lot happens in Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel. Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books Bizarrely fascinating. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility what could be so terribly wrong? A New York Times Bestseller One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed btcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound. My Year of Rest and Relaxation is most convincing as an urbane dark comedy, sharp-eyed satire leavened by passages of morbid sobriety, as in a perverse fusion of Sex and the City and Requiem for a Dream. ![]() 'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy.' - Vogueĭiscover this deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen. ![]() A deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen (and enfant terrible of American fiction), Ottessa Moshfegh ![]()
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