An electrifying, prizewinning first collection from the
Booker-shortlisted author
Ottessa Moshfegh has written four previous books- McGlue (2014), Eileen, which was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Homesick for Another World (2017), and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and will be filmed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the Oscar-winning director of The Favourite.
Razor-sharp short stories.
*Zadie Smith*
Moshfegh is consistently as sparky and gripping as she is
inventive… She could become one of the most outstanding US writers
of her generation.
*i*
The characters in this collection are an unlovely bunch but make
for an irresistible read… She writes terrific, attention-grabbing
openings, and impactful last lines that don’t strain for a lapidary
effect. Her damaged-girl deadpan snark is second to none, but she
inhabits other character types with ease.
*Financial Times*
She can really write and has a pitch-black sense of humour.
*Sunday Times*
Moshfegh’s writing is cinematic – vivid, immediate.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Moshfegh’s powerful, pristine prose shines a light on the dark side
of these characters […] Her endings are never happy, but they often
contain hope – which can be more convincing.
*Daily Mail*
Moshfegh delights in exploring the seamy underside of life… Once
encountered these characters are not easily forgotten.
*Bookseller*
An impressive study of human vulnerability and self-deception,
through which the reader is guided by a cynical and darkly funny
literary voice.
*1843 Magazine*
Homesick for Another World showcases her mastery.
*Time Magazine (Europe)*
A perfect showcase to Moshfegh’s brilliant and sui generis mind…
brilliant as was Eileen, Moshfegh is near virtuosic in short story
form, and newcomers to her work would do well to begin with this
collection.
*Culture Trip*
Dark, confident, prickling stories… [Moshfegh] has a wicked sort of
command. Sampling her sentences is like touching a mildly
electrified fence… Moshfegh is a penetrating observer of class and
social mores… Do not come to these stories if your own guts are
easily stirred.
*New York Times*
In her excellent first collection, Homesick for Another World,
Ottessa Moshfegh… homes in on characters in states of weirdly
dynamic paralysis, trapped between the pains of the past – bad
childhoods, bad relationships, bad marriages – and dreams of the
future… The stories… give us a sense of watching a fluent, deeply
talented artist extend herself and take risks in her quest to
master the form… Magnificent examples of how a short story can
become expansive beyond expectation.
*Gulf News*
Provocative… Moshfegh presents characters who evince a flinching
disgust for bodily functions and human intimacy. There’s no
shortage of colourful sociopaths here… The stories draw a picture
of an America that has lost its way, a bigoted, insular nation in
the grip of an obesity epidemic... It’s a bracing, brilliant
collection.
*Literary Review*
Moshfegh’s style is a blend of nihilism and drollery that feels
hyper-contemporary in its relentless sassiness, moving in the same
breath from biting human observation to casual one liners about
anal sex.
*The Spectator*
Efforts to contrive a sensationalist buzz around the author are not
surprising. But Moshfegh needs no extra edge. Her works make enough
of an impression, and they are exceptional: dark, violent and
grotesquely intelligent. This new story collection, Homesick for
Another World, is probably her most accomplished work to date, and
it does not scrimp on obscenity, on esoteric rituals, or on harsh,
uncomfortable realities… These stories paint a stunningly unique
picture of contemporary disenchantment that goes beyond glassy-eyed
millennial ennui.
*Totally Dublin*
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