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Publisher: Penguin Books

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

ISBN: 9780525522133

Fiction, Contemporary

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by
Ottessa Moshfegh

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$ 450.00 mxn

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by

Ottessa Moshfegh

Reviews

"Bizarrely fascinating. . . . Moshfegh knows how to spin perversity and provocation into fascination, and bleakness into surprising tenderness."

NPR

Summary

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.

Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. 

Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be.

A New York Times Bestseller. New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

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