My Year of Rest and Relaxation

'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.'

This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely.

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 savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss.

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

About the author

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.

Summary

what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

Report

Moshfegh's stunning 2018 novel has a haunting ending... [and] relentlessly vicious humour. Gwendolyn Smith i

Product details

• Authors: Ottessa Moshfegh, Moshfegh Ottessa
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.10.2021
• EAN: 9781784877477
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-747-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Heroines
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, ‘Street’ fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Street fiction / urban fiction