A mordant story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in American fiction
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. 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. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award.
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.
*The Times*
A sucker punch of a novel, full of fury and disgust,
heart-wrenching in places, a masterclass in mood and tone. Eileen
is a fantastic creation and a surprisingly satisfying antidote to
the dozy and complacent heroines of much so-called literary
fiction.
*Julie Myerson*
An unforgettable new American voice.
*Los Angeles Times*
The great power of this book…is that Eileen is never simply a
literary gargoyle; she is painfully alive and human, and Ottessa
Moshfegh writes her with a bravura wildness that allows flights of
expressionistic fantasy to alternate with deadpan matter of
factness… As a character study, the book is a remarkable tour de
force… As an evocation of physical and psychological squalor,
Eileen is original courageous and masterful. Moshfegh never
panders.
*Guardian*
A seductive novel…Moshfegh writes beautiful sentences. One after
the other they unwind – playful, shocking, wise, morbid, witty,
searingly sharp. The beginning of this novel is so impressive, so
controlled yet whimsical, fresh and thrilling, you feel she can do
anything.
*New York Times*
In the literary world…Ottessa Moshfegh is seen as a comer, perhaps
even the Next Big Thing. Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing,
always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally
hilarious… Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like
Eileen.
*Washington Post*
Ottessa Moshfegh has created one of the great characters of recent
fiction. Eileen is a modern masterpiece: cruel, grotesquely
beautiful and merciless as a hungry wolf finding a lost fawn in the
snow.
*John Burnside*
If Jim Thompson had married Patricia Highsmith – imagine that
household – they might have conspired together to dream up
something like Eileen. It’s blacker than black and cold as an
icicle. It’s also brilliantly realised and horribly funny.
*John Banville*
Excellent…a taut, well-written, and completely engrossing
novel…culminating in a dynamite ending.
*Boston Globe*
Perverse, squalid and sinister this expertly paced novel … delivers
a thumping finish to match the build-up: a single line near the end
has the effect of a thunderbolt, leaving us dumbstruck by her sly,
almost wicked storytelling genius.
*Daily Telegraph*
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