Eileen

ISBN-13: 9781784701468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Ottessa Moshfegh

Opis

Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop tempers her days with dreams of escaping to the big city. When Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new prison counsellor, Eileen affection for Rebecca will pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.

Recenzje

Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Times

O autorze

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 bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.