Bibliograph

My year of rest and relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

Type

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My year of rest and relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

My year of rest and relaxation

Medium

large print

Oclc number

1031403897

Responsibility statement

Ottessa Moshfegh

Summary

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?

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