Ottessa Moshfegh
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English
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Early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side. The alienation of an unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend Reva, an ex-boyfriend, and her drug-pushing psychiatrist are unwholesome. As her pill-popping intensifies, so does her isolation and determination to leave...
2) Lapvona
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English
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FLO - BookRiot's Best Summer Reads
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JEF - Fantasy (Adults)
FLO - Goodreads' Most Anticipated Books of Summer
Hot Summer Reads - WTPL
JEF - Fantasy (Adults)
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"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
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"An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year byThe Washington Postand theSan Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics...
4) Lapvona
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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UNO DE LOS LIBROS MÁS ESPERADOS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE GUARDIAN, THE TIMES O HARPER 'S BAZAAR, POR LA AUTORA DEL FENÓMENO MI AÑO DE DESCANSO Y RELAJACIÓN, GANADORA DE LOS PREMIOS PEN/HEMINGWAY, PUSHCART Y O. HENRY «Como suele pasar con las obras de Ottessa Moshfegh, nunca has leído una novela como esta».
Virginia Feito «La mejor escritora de su generación».
Lourdes Ventura, El Cultural
En la aldea medieval de Lapvona, el pequeño Marek...
5) Eileen
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Language
English
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Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home While on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her...
7) McGlue
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation, he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection"--Provided by publisher.
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2022.
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English
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"A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and New York Times-bestselling poet Leonard Cohen. In A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen's unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning of his career. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel,...
9) Eileen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken--but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime"--
10) Eileen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken--but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime"--
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