My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Tender, honest, and, at times, hilarious, this tale of one woman’s quest to sleep as much as humanly possible for a year is shockingly good. Beautifully melancholic, this is a book you instantly want to recommend to all your friends.

Picked By John

 

Discover this deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen 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.

Additional Information

ISBN9781784707422
Weight250 g
Dimensions15.8 × 14.9 × 2 cm
FormatPaperback / softback
Category