Written to tak Review from Hello Yellow Room. To order a copy for £12.99 (RRP £11.04) go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 … My Year Of Rest And Relaxationis blisteringly funny, perceptive, knowing and shows how so many of us lead disaffected, alienated lives even without becoming narcotic recluses. [I wonder if this is an allegory about commercialism, secularism, and addiction? One of the things I enjoy about reading fiction is getting to see the challenges authors set themselves when they create their plots and characters. This was my hope. RRP $19.99 or 4 payments of $5.00 with Learn more Booklovers earn $0.95 in rewards when purchasing this title As someone who copes with depression by sleeping an excessive amount, I understood where she was coming from, and picked up this book out of curiosity to see what happens when someone submits to that nihilistic desire to not associate with the world anymore. Here, let me try and show you: Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. The novel ends with 9/11 and one of the characters is alluded to a woman who jumped from the twin towers. By Ottessa Moshfeg h. July 10, 2018. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Her first book, “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”, “Sleep felt productive. My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. But surprisingly, the repetitiveness is what I enjoyed most about the book. A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel. My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Like her other works, this novel will not be for everyone; but I think the people who like it will really like it. Thanks to Reva’s incessant acting out upon her conflicting emotions toward the narrator—jealous and envious at the same time—the narrator’s year of rest and relaxation is upset by such intrusions as Reva’s affair with her married boss, Reva’s terminally-ill cancer-stricken mother. Well, this one went down nice n' easy, like I imagine an Ambien would. 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. . This is destined to be one of the summer’s most buzzed-about books. The writing is precise and hilarious, as well as disturbing and dark. One of the things I enjoy about reading fiction is getting to see the challenges authors set themselves when they create their plots and characters. The main characters of My Year of Rest and Relaxation novel are John, Emma. Ottessa Moshfegh is a merciless comedian of vanity and frailty. (Her 2015 debut, Eileen, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Rest has already been optioned for film by … I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories. Again, hilarious scenes. About My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Bored with her seemingly meaningless life, a young woman escalates her use of prescription drugs so she can sleep through the whole year… My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a book that can get repetitive: Sleep, lie to Dr. Tuttle that you have insomnia and take more medication, meet Reva, despise her, take more medication, watch some movies, sleep. This was the dream.” -Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation . FICTION. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick … Ottessa Moshfegh’s unnerving and compelling new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation… percussively hammered out in her flawless, rhythmic prose… concludes with a startlingly, unexpectedly beautiful passage… radical, urgent, and more painfully wise than perhaps we would like to admit.
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