My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Ottessa Moshfegh
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible
A New York Times Bestseller
“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.”—Vogue
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.
©2018 Ottessa Moshfegh (P)2018 Penguin Audio
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“I don't think I'm ever going to get over Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation.”—Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
“Ottessa Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible. She has a freaky and pure way of accessing existential alienation, as if her mind were tapped directly into the sap of some gnarled, secret tree. . . . Watching Moshfegh turn her withering attention to the gleaming absurdities of pre-9/11 New York City, an environment where everyone except the narrator seems beset with delusional optimism, horrifically carefree, feels like eating bright, slick candy—candy that might also poison you.”—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
“Darkly comic and ultimately profound new novel. . . . Moshfegh’s extraordinary prose soars as it captures her character’s re-engagement.”—Vendela Vida, New York Times Book Review
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
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- 11/02/2020
A trash existentialist Sleeping Beauty 2.0
A very original and deep book, the depth of emptiness and absurdity of modern life. Not a book for positive thought fans.
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Global3 out of 5 stars
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- Sophie welch
- 10/11/2020
Morbid
I started the book with the impression that it was funny, but it was very depressing. Maybe better to buy as a paper back.
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- MoreBooksPlease
- 21/12/2020
Incredible. "Still Pretty" Indeed.
I resisted reading this story for a very long time. The only reason I sprang for this book was because I loved the author's novel "Death in Her Hands", so entirely. I'm so glad I finally listened to it.
The narrator perfectly captures the tone of the book, the husk of the character, her boredom, her numbness, her sarcastic take on the world, on her flaws. She numbs herself with drugs, vhs tapes, and bad food. Her steady commentary on the world angered me. Who was she, a rich, spoiled brat--why was I giving her my time? That's how good the narrator is--she became this character. The impressions of the other characters were pitch perfect, wryly interpreted but human.
I wouldn't listen to this book for months after I bought it, afraid of where the narrator might end up. But listening between the lines, the real story captivated me. The last hour diverted me entirely, and I stopped what I was doing and simply sat and listened, entirely transported. Like a child, I waited for the ending, hoping that it wouldn't end but knowing that it must.
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- Marion B.
- 11/08/2020
What did I just read ?
I don't really know what i was expecting listening to this book but clearly not this abyssal boredom. Some people find it deep with an important message and satyre of the early 2000's american society. I found it shallow and repetitive : we get it the main character is pretty and rich but rest assured she is "not like other girls" she has a purpose in life (sleep and watch VHS).
Livre d'un abyssal ennui. Je m'attendais à quelque chose de piquant avec de l'humour noir. Rien du tout. Le personnage principal une jeune femme éduquée riche et très très très belle (sérieusement on aura compris au bout de la 42ème fois) décide de passer une année de sa vie à dormir à l'aide de drogue diverses et variée parce que non "elle n'est pas comme les autres filles" Ugh !. C'est d'ailleurs la seule impression que me laisse ce livre : la drogue. Mention non stop des différents produits et dosages...
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