Eileen

Informationen zum Autor Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England and the author of six books. Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsell­ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. She lives in Southern California. Klappentext 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 . Zusammenfassung *SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016*Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city.

Report

Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Times

Product details

• Authors: Ottessa Moshfegh, Moshfegh Ottessa
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781784701468
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-146-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Crime, Historical fiction, FICTION / Psychological, Massachusetts, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Gothic, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Social issues, Humorous fiction, Psychological thriller, c 1960 to c 1969