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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Author
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrator
- Julia Whelan
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 14 March 2019
- Run Time
- 7 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Satirical fiction and parodies, Street fiction / urban fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 (3 reviews)
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019
FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' Vogue
It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: 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. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.
Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers.
Critics Review
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The book that everybody’s talking about… I read it and was entranced.
The Times
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This is the first book I couldn’t put down this year… Almost offensive with its close-to-the-bone truths, it’s shockingly relatable. And legitimately laugh-out-loud funny. Ottessa Moshfegh is sharp, savage and hilarious.
Elle
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The superabundantly talented...Moshfegh’s sentences are piercing and vixenish… she is always a deep pleasure to read.
New York Times
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation is whip-smart, continuously compelling, and acerbic in all the right ways.
Daily Telegraph
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Electrifying... [Moshfegh] is adept at crafting compelling female characters who violate the rules of femininity... Moshfegh’s protagonist is an unlikely revolutionary.
Vanity Fair
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A relentlessly savage fable of privilege and pain… While we’re laughing, we feel disgust. It’s a combination that makes for diamond-hard entertainment.
Guardian
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Darkly hilarious... [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.
Vogue, **Must-Read Books of 2018**
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The best literary novel (and best book, full stop) that I read in 2019 was My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. It is that incredibly rare book hyped as being "hilarious" which is actually funny... It's also a devastating satire of WASP culture, psychiatrists and New York.
Sunday Independent **Books of the Year**
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[My Year of Rest and Relaxation is] a laugh-out-loud page-turner... it’s also the best 9/11 novel I’ve read.
Times Literary Supplement **Books of the Year 2018**
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Moshfegh’s blackly funny new novel… [hits] multiple marks at once: as an art-school prank, a between-the-lines tale of displaced grief and a pitiless anatomy of gender injustice, it also offers… a dark state-of-America fable.
Observer
User Reviews
Book 4.3
Narration 4.7
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5.0 5.0
Lives up to the hype! Funny, smart, shocking, tragic and, weirdly, for a story about drug-induced social hibernation, quite relatable?!
sardow 2024-03-12
Details
- Author
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrator
- Julia Whelan
- Duration
- 7 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 March 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473572515
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Satirical fiction and parodies, Street fiction / urban fiction
- Rating
- 4.3(3 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.7(3 reviews)
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEENTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' VogueIt’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: 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. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers.
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