My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
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“@MikeIsaac I loved this book, and it was written before the pandemic (just barely) Also read “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” for more of those fever dream isolation coping vibes | @racheld great book | Favorite book of the decade. | Last year I read Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" and thought "huh. what a weird concept" and now I think it's the most prescient book of our times”
Source →“@MikeIsaac I loved this book, and it was written before the pandemic (just barely) Also read “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” for more of those fever dream isolation coping vibes | @racheld great book | Favorite book of the decade. | Last year I read Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" and thought "huh. what a weird concept" and now I think it's the most prescient book of our times”
Source →“@MikeIsaac I loved this book, and it was written before the pandemic (just barely) Also read “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” for more of those fever dream isolation coping vibes | @racheld great book | Favorite book of the decade. | Last year I read Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" and thought "huh. what a weird concept" and now I think it's the most prescient book of our times”
Source →Recommended by 5 notable people, including Heidi N. Moore and Danielle Morrill
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Psychology and Fiction.
FROM THE MAN BOOKERSHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEENTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a nonnegotiable in your holiday carryon this summer' VogueIt?s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrongOur narrator...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Psychology and Fiction.
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Heidi N. Moore
“@MikeIsaac I loved this book, and it was written before the pandemic (just barely) Also read “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” for more of those fever dream isolation coping vibes | @racheld great book | Favorite book of the decade. | Last year I read Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" and thought "huh. what a weird concept" and now I think it's the most prescient book of our times”
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