· “The great power of this book, which won the PEN/Hemingway debut fiction award last month, is that Eileen is never simply a literary gargoyle; she is painfully alive and human, and Ottessa Moshfegh writes her with a bravura wildness that allows flights of expressionistic fantasy to alternate with deadpan matter of factnessBrand: Penguin Publishing Group. Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen sounded like a great and intriguing read. The ’s, a girl’s escape from a boring life in a small New England town, a mysterious crime – there are lots of interesting plot points going for this book, which will be released in August /5(K). · Ottessa Moshfegh has published short fiction in The Paris Review and has won the prestigious Plimpton Prize. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Eileen is her debut www.doorway.ru: Claire Fallon.
Eileen: A Novel by Moshfegh, Ottessa and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Ottessa Moshfegh is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. A fearless explorer of the unexpected, Moshfegh approaches the lives of characters living on the margins of society with precision, compassion, and a blackly comic sensibility. Her novel Eileen was nominated for the Man Booker Prize and her short story collection. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh review - random acts of violence. A courageous, masterful evocation of physical and psychological squalor - but, in a genre that lives by its plot twists and shock.
Eileen is a literary thriller by American author Ottessa Moshfegh. The novel’s narrator—Eileen Dunlop—is a seventy-four-four-year-old woman, looking back on the events of her twenty-fourth year, when her life changed forever. The twenty-four-year-old Eileen works at a correctional institution for boys and cares for her abusive, alcoholic father. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, her second novel, was a New York Times bestseller. “The great power of this book, which won the PEN/Hemingway debut fiction award last month, is that Eileen is never simply a literary gargoyle; she is painfully alive and human, and Ottessa Moshfegh writes her with a bravura wildness that allows flights of expressionistic fantasy to alternate with deadpan matter of factness.
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