An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the
Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen
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.
Razor-sharp short stories.
*Zadie Smith*
Moshfegh is consistently as sparky and gripping as she is
inventive… She could become one of the most outstanding US writers
of her generation.
*i*
The characters in this collection are an unlovely bunch but make
for an irresistible read… She writes terrific, attention-grabbing
openings, and impactful last lines that don’t strain for a lapidary
effect. Her damaged-girl deadpan snark is second to none, but she
inhabits other character types with ease.
*Financial Times*
She can really write and has a pitch-black sense of humour.
*Sunday Times*
Moshfegh’s writing is cinematic – vivid, immediate.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Moshfegh’s powerful, pristine prose shines a light on the dark side
of these characters […] Her endings are never happy, but they often
contain hope – which can be more convincing.
*Daily Mail*
Moshfegh delights in exploring the seamy underside of life… Once
encountered these characters are not easily forgotten.
*Bookseller*
An impressive study of human vulnerability and self-deception,
through which the reader is guided by a cynical and darkly funny
literary voice.
*1843 Magazine*
Homesick for Another World showcases her mastery.
*Time Magazine (Europe)*
A perfect showcase to Moshfegh’s brilliant and sui generis mind…
brilliant as was Eileen, Moshfegh is near virtuosic in short story
form, and newcomers to her work would do well to begin with this
collection.
*Culture Trip*
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