Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsell-ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.
Compelling... Moshfegh's bold venture beyond her comfort zone in
Lapvona is a welcome promise of how much more she has to offer
American literature today.
*Financial Times*
What impresses here is not so much Moshfegh's abilities with
character or narrative, or even her language . . . as the qualities
Lapvona shares with a Francis Bacon painting: depicting in
blood-red vitality, without morals or judgment, the human animal in
its native chaos.
*Guardian*
Moshfegh expertly creates a world with its own superstitions and
laws, both timeless and topical.
*Oprah Daily*
Moshfegh's genius is her ability to rip away the veil, revealing
the horrors beneath, in writing so compelling, and bleakly funny,
that we can't bear to look away.
*i*
A witty, vicious novel.. . Moshfegh is one of our most thrilling
chroniclers of the abject
*Observer (USA)*
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