LOVE FOR LIVRES

Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist. Her debut novel, Eileen (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Moshfegh`s subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.

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My year of rest and relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh - Publisher : Penguin Vintage

Back cover. 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...
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For the week-ends	Autumn	To my friends	fairly easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few days

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7/10

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

Publisher`s presentation : A woman recalls with painstaking cynicism the week that turned her life around fifty years earlier. In 1964, at the age of twenty-four, she lives with her alcoholic father in a dilapidated house near Boston and works as a receptionist in a prison for juvenile offenders. She endures this grim existence with a mixture of helplessness, anger and hatred - mostly for...
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To not die of boredom	Winter	To my friends	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few hours

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