Homesick for Another World

There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment, in very different ways, but each of them seems destined to be tripped up by their own baser impulses. What makes these stories so moving is the emotional balance that Moshfegh achieves - the way she exposes the limitless range of self-deception that human beings can employ while, at the same time, infusing the grotesque and outrageous with tenderness and compassion. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful, but beauty comes from strange sources, and the dark energy surging through these stories is oddly and powerfully invigorating. One of the most gifted and exciting young writers in America, she shows us uncomfortable things, and makes us look at them forensically - until we find, suddenly, that we are really looking at ourselves.

Product details

• Authors: Ottessa Moshfegh, Moshfegh Ottessa
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 11.01.2018
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781784701505
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-150-5
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.9 cm
• Subjects: FICTION / Literary, Kristen Roupenian, Sally Rooney, Booker Prize, Flannery O'Connor, Fiction, celeste ng, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Narrative theme: Social issues, Patricia Highsmith, Race, Richard Powers, You know you want this, Rachel Kushner, Daisy Johnson, Washington Black, FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor, Conversations with Friends, men without women, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, milkman anna burns, The Overstory, Everything Under, the rules do not apply, motherhood sheila heti, everything i never told you, the mars room, death in her hands, the normal people, my sister the serial killer oyinkan braithwaite, asymmetry lisa halliday