My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.'This is the story of a woman with no name. 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. Yet she longs to lose herself completely.It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss.Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

Short-listed for Wellcome Book Prize 2019 (UK)

“Moshfegh's stunning 2018 novel has a haunting ending... [and] relentlessly vicious humour.”

-- Gwendolyn Smith i
This razor sharp satirical novel has achieved near mythical status... [a] compelling and clever take on a female character that isn't afraid to speak her mind Glamour
Ottessa is one of our newest, most dazzling, daring and outrageous voices in literature -- Gwendoline Christie Vogue
Dark, but very funny… an interesting take on something like self care, and quite addicting Independent, Summer Reads of 2025

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsell-ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.

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