My year of rest and relaxation / Ottessa Moshfegh.

By: Moshfegh, Ottessa [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, 2018Description: 288 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784707422; 1787330419Subject(s): Women -- Conduct of life -- Fiction | Psychiatrists -- Fiction | Drug abuse -- Fiction | Mentally ill women -- Fiction | Young women -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. Additional physical formats: ebook version: No titleDDC classification: 813.6 Also issued online.Summary: A novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
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A novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?

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