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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By: Ottessa Moshfegh
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019

FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?

Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.

Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers.

©2019 Ottessa Moshfegh (P)2019 Penguin Audio Dark humor Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Fiction Comedy

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"Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy...My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer." (Vogue)

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The performance is brilliant, and it matches the benignly self centered main character. I have never found this unsympathetic a character this compelling before.

Bizarre but intoxicating and compelling

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Failure after failure, disappointment after disappointment, this book saved me from that slump. It's unique and compelling and nauseating and well-written, and the reader was great. If you think a good book hinges on the need for a female main character to be a puppy-saving baby-kissing tepid wash basin full of greywater then I wouldn't recommend this book, but if you like thinking critically then I would.

Best audible experience in a while

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I hoped for more. Such an interesting main character but I didn’t feel the story developed in a way that was interesting or thought provoking.

Just didn’t connect

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Do not understand what the author was trying to tell us here. The performance was good though

Shallow Character

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A book about unkind privileged people, being unkind and privileged and then 9/11 happens. The end.

The plot led nowhere and nothing happened

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