My Year of Rest and Relaxation My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

A Novel

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Publisher Description

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, 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?


My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
July 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.9
MB

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jrc=dallas ,

If you don’t like this, something is wrong with you

“It was boring”…”it was dark”… hello, it was REAL, beaches.

Shaodong Liang ,

I lurve it

Cheeky, easy to read, very modern in my opinion

abigailllc ,

adamantly superficial, but what isn’t these days?

through dark satire and an existential analysis of capitalism, ambivalence and the idea of middle/upper class vs the world; the persona written for this character, who is nameless and understood only by her thoughts which grapple between collectivism and individualism, make this a brilliant exposition on life and wakefulness in a society that does everything it’s capable of to avoid touching grass.


the last two chapters are beautifully written, yet they do nothing to redeem this self centered character who is still just as self centered. however the last two chapters powerfully acknowledges our hubris and selective self awareness as humans, with a juxtaposition of grace and humility needed to appreciate life in it’s cycle of creation and destruction.

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