Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59420-662-7
Winner of both the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize and a Stegner Fellowship, Moshfegh moves beyond her previous short fiction achievements with this dark and unnerving debut novel. In 1964, Eileen Dunlop is 24 years old, living with her cruel,...
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Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-56288-4
In 14 expertly crafted stories, Moshfegh (Eileen) examines characters and situations too weird to be real and too real to be fiction, with themes of alienation, ennui, displacement, sexual neuroses, and addiction. A voyeuristic old man steels his...
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Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-52211-9
The latest from Booker finalist Moshfegh (following the story collection Homesick for Another World) is a captivating and disquieting novel about a woman's quest to sleep for a year. The unnamed narrator is in her 20s, lives alone on the Upper East...
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Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-9848-7935-6
Moshfegh’s disorienting latest (after My Year of Rest and Relaxation) sends up the detective genre with mixed results. Vesta Gul is an elderly woman who has moved to an isolated cabin on a lake after her husband’s death—with only her dog, Charlie,...
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Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-30026-8
Moshfegh’s deliriously quirky medieval tale (after Death in Her Hands) revolves around a disabled shepherd boy’s test of faith. Marek, 13, is abused by his father and raised by Ina, a midwife and witch who once nursed him as an infant. Still, Marek...
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