7/6/2023 0 Comments Death in her hands![]() ![]() I’d be renewed, reborn,” says the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, with uncharacteristic sincerity). Yet there can be something ennobling, even liberating, about their isolation (“I knew in my heart… that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. Her characters are oddballs – alcoholics, pill-poppers, twentysomething virgins – swimming and drowning in self-loathing, even as they cast a pitiless eye over the people around them. From her earliest stories, through her novella McGlue to her novels Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (a tale of self-isolation before it was cool), her preoccupations have always been clear and unapologetic. Moshfegh is one of the most original and astute young novelists working today. ![]() "Loneliness clarifies,” said Philip Larkin, whose similarities with the American writer Ottessa Moshfegh are not otherwise obvious. ![]()
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