From one of our most provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense
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.
A masterclass in suspense.
*Economist*
Moshfegh is one of the most original and astute young novelists
working today.
*Daily Telegraph*
Routinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors
working today... Her work takes dirty realism and makes it
filthier. But it is is also beautiful...the depravity of her
material matched by the purity and precision of her prose.
*Guardian*
Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands is a new kind of murder
mystery... The work of a writer who is, like Henry James or
Vladimir Nabokov, touched by both genius and cruelty... Like a
surgeon, or a serial killer, Moshfegh flenses her characters, and
her readers, until all that's left is a void. It's the amused
contemplation of that void that gives rise to the dark exhilaration
of her work -- its wayward beauty, its comedy, and its horror.
*New Yorker*
Much more than a whodunnit... This is a story about what might
happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery...
Moshfegh is as wise and wild as Ali Smith or Rebecca Solnit, and as
gifted a scribe of nature as Annie Dillard or Thoreau.
*The Times*
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