Homesick For Another World [electronic resource]
, Ottessa Moshfegh2017
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'Razor-sharp' Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful – and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment, in very different ways, but each of them seems destined to be tripped up by their own baser impulses. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful, but beauty comes from strange sources, and the dark energy surging through these stories is oddly and powerfully invigorating. One of the most gifted and exciting young writers in America, she shows us uncomfortable things, and makes us look at them forensically – until we find, suddenly, that we are really looking at ourselves. 'Moshfegh's writing is cinematic – vivid, immediate' TLS
Main title:
Homesick For Another World [electronic resource] / Ottessa Moshfegh
Author:
, Ottessa Moshfegh, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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.
ISBN:
9781473522725
Language:
English
BRN:
2837968
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