Books Details
Author : Ottessa Moshfegh Pages : 304 pages Publisher : Penguin Books Language :
eng ISBN-10 : 0525522131 ISBN-13 : 9780525522133
Books Descriptions
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
