The novel speeds to the best last page of any book I've likely ever read. But the cumulative power of her narrative-and the sharp turn she takes in its last 30 pages-becomes nothing less than a revelation: sad, funny, astonishing, and unforgettable." - Entertainment Weekly (Her 2015 debut, Eileen, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Rest has already been optioned for film by Australian actress Margot Robbie). Moshfegh writes with a singular wit and clarity that, on its own, would be more than enough. " My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a strange, exhilarating triumph. 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." - The New Yorker 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. "Ottessa Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible. "Moshfegh is the novelist for me right now there's such freedom and puckishness in her prose, and grandmaster technical wizardry, too." - Parul Sehgal, The New York Times No one can discomfit a reader quite like her." - AV Club "It's another acerbic character study from an author making a career out of bringing absurdly unlikable people to life. "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 Her confidence never flags hers are the novels of a writer invigoratingly immune to uncertainty and self-doubt." - Slate As in Eileen, Moshfegh excels here at setting up an immediately intriguing character and situation, then amplifying the freakishness to the point that some rupture feels inevitable. "The bravado in Moshfegh's comprehensive darkness makes her novels both very funny and weirdly exhilarating. Moshfegh's extraordinary prose soars as it captures her character's re-engagement." - New York Times Book Review "Darkly comic and ultimately profound new novel.
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