EPISODE · Mar 14, 2019 · 7H 15M
My Year of Rest and Relaxation : Ottessa Moshfegh
from Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Ottessa Moshfegh
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Year of Rest and Relaxation Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 14, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019 FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' Vogue It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Year of Rest and Relaxation Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 14, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019 FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' Vogue It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers.
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