My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Vintage Heroines
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Vintage Heroines
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Published:
14 October, 2021
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Description
'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.'
This is the story of a woman with no name. 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. Yet she longs to lose herself completely.
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 savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss.
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
Prizes
Short-listed for Wellcome Book Prize 2019 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781784877477 |
| ISBN10 | 1784877476 |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 216 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 18 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Moshfegh's stunning 2018 novel has a haunting ending... [and] relentlessly vicious humour. -- Gwendolyn Smith * i *
This razor sharp satirical novel has achieved near mythical status... [a] compelling and clever take on a female character that isn't afraid to speak her mind * Glamour *
Ottessa is one of our newest, most dazzling, daring and outrageous voices in literature -- Gwendoline Christie * Vogue *
Dark, but very funny… an interesting take on something like self care, and quite addicting * Independent, *Summer Reads of 2025* *
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Author's Bio
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England and the author of six books. Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. She lives in Southern California.