EAN: 9780525522133

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH - GEBRAUCHT MY YEAR OF REST AN...

Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of 2018  "One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction
has offered in years: a loopy  quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed
b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely
profound."  - Entertainment Weekly   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? She's young  thin  pretty  a recent Columbia graduate  works an easy job at a
hip art gallery  lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for  like the
rest of her needs  by her inheritance. 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. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter
with wealth and possibility  what could be so terribly wrong?  My Year of Rest and Relaxation
is a powerful answer to that question. 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. Both tender and
blackly funny  merciless and compassionate  it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major
writers working at the height of her powers.  Named a Best Book of the Year by:   The
Washington Post  Time  NPR  Amazon Vice  Bustle  The New York Times  The Guardian  Kirkus
Reviews  Entertainment Weekly  The AV Club  & Audible

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