The second novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted US enfant terrible
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.
The book that everybody’s talking about… I read it and was
entranced.
*The Times*
This is the first book I couldn’t put down this year… Almost
offensive with its close-to-the-bone truths, it’s shockingly
relatable. And legitimately laugh-out-loud funny. Ottessa Moshfegh
is sharp, savage and hilarious.
*Elle*
The superabundantly talented...Moshfegh’s sentences are piercing
and vixenish… she is always a deep pleasure to read.
*New York Times*
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is whip-smart, continuously
compelling, and acerbic in all the right ways.
*Daily Telegraph*
Electrifying... [Moshfegh] is adept at crafting compelling female
characters who violate the rules of femininity... Moshfegh’s
protagonist is an unlikely revolutionary.
*Vanity Fair*
A relentlessly savage fable of privilege and pain… While we’re
laughing, we feel disgust. It’s a combination that makes for
diamond-hard entertainment.
*Guardian*
Darkly hilarious... [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes
you laugh out loud while drawing blood.
*Vogue, **Must-Read Books of 2018***
The best literary novel (and best book, full stop) that I read in
2019 was My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. It is
that incredibly rare book hyped as being "hilarious" which is
actually funny... It's also a devastating satire of WASP culture,
psychiatrists and New York.
*Sunday Independent **Books of the Year***
[My Year of Rest and Relaxation is] a laugh-out-loud page-turner...
it’s also the best 9/11 novel I’ve read.
*Times Literary Supplement **Books of the Year 2018***
Moshfegh’s blackly funny new novel… [hits] multiple marks at once:
as an art-school prank, a between-the-lines tale of displaced grief
and a pitiless anatomy of gender injustice, it also offers… a dark
state-of-America fable.
*Observer*
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