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Haven't had a drop in days more so...
Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation β he may have killed a man.
Man Booker Shortlisted Ottessa Moshfegh's blistering first novel- 'A wonderwork of virtuoso prose and truths that will make you squirm and concur' Gary Lutz
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Man Booker Shortlisted Ottessa Moshfegh's blistering first novel - "A wonderwork of virtuoso prose and truths that will make you squirm and concur" Gary Lutz.
Discover the blistering first novella from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
They said I've done something wrong?... And they've just left me down here to starve. Haven't had a drop in days more so...
Salem, Massachusetts, 1851 - McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation - he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend.
Now, McGlue wants one thing and one thing only - a drink. Because for McGlue, insufferable, terrifying memories accompany sobriety.
A sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us an unforgettable blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.
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McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh is lauded for its unique and striking prose, drawing comparisons to literary giants like Cormac McCarthy, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. The novella is celebrated for its strange beauty and intense vividness, creating a sordid yet compelling narrative of love and murder. Reviewers appreciate its scalpel-sharp observations and baroque flourishes, although it presents a sense of constant unease and spins a wild, fast-paced plot.
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ISBN: 9781784706623
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 May 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 98g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short fiction has earned her the Paris Review Plimpton Prize, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and an O. Henry Award. Her collection Homesick for Another World was published in January 2017. McGlue was her debut novel, and the winner of the Fence Modern Prize for Prose and the Believer Book Award. This is the first time the book is published here in the U.K.
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