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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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  • Published: 21 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784707422
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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18 Jan 2022
Paperback
21 May 2019
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14 Mar 2019
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A deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen (and enfant terrible of American fiction), Ottessa Moshfegh

Read THE razor-sharp satire that everyone on TikTok is talking about...

On the surface, our narrator has everything you could want in life. She's young, beautiful, a recent Columbia graduate and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance.

But there is a vacuum in her life and she's got the perfect solution. She's going to take a year under sedation to relax and hide away from the world.

What could possibly go wrong?

Blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, is the perfect read to aid your pandemic burnout.

PRAISE FOR MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION:

'The book that everyone is talking about' The Times

'Diamond-hard entertainment' Guardian

'Electrifying...compelling...Moshfegh's protagonist is an unlikely revolutionary' Vanity Fair
  • Published: 21 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784707422
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh has written four previous books: McGlue (2014); Eileen, which was awarded the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Homesick for Another World (2017); and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.

portrait photo of Ottessa Moshfegh

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