My Year of Rest and Relaxation My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

A Novel

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
July 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.9
MB

Customer Reviews

rora🎆 ,

strange

a strange book for women who are truly ill, but honestly this book was a good read and really fun… plus i have an idea now

jrc=dallas ,

If you don’t like this, something is wrong with you

“It was boring”…”it was dark”… hello, it was REAL, beaches.

Irsula ,

Unapologetically Uninspiring

A novel about someone in the mood to feel nothing for a time, with no thought provoking end. Not the worst read but was as much a waste of my life as it was the heroine’s. Please don’t.

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