Eileen

Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.

Main Author: Moshfegh, Ottessa (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
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Summary: Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
Physical Description: 260 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781594206627 (hardcover)
1594206627 (hardcover)
9780143128755
Author Notes: Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford. Her title My Year of Rest and Relaxation made the bestseller list in 2018.

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