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Eileen: A Novel

Eileen: A Novel

Ottessa Moshfegh

Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared.
Eileen

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared.
McGlue

McGlue

Ottessa Moshfegh

Darkly exquisite as drowning, McGlue inhabits the DTs of a dissolute man in the hold on a rough sea voyage.
Eileen

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

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.
Eileen

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

"So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys.
Homesick for Another World: Stories

Homesick for Another World: Stories

Ottessa Moshfegh

The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating.
Eileen

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England, blending true noir and the eerie, unforgettable books of Shirley Jackson and Flannery O’Connor, this mesmeric, terrifying, sublimely funny debut novel enthralls and shocks, ...
Eileen: A Novel

Eileen: A Novel

Ottessa Moshfegh

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England, blending true noir and the the eerie, unforgettable books of Shirley Jackson and Flannery Oâe(tm)Connor, this mesmeric, terrifying, sublimely funny debut novel enthralls and ...
The Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference

The Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference

Gary Lutz

Hi, Ottessa. • Hello, Ottessa. • Congratulations, Ottessa! 29. Commas in the Salutations and Complimentary Closings of Letters and E-Mails In an informal or a semiformal letter or e-mail, the salutation — as well as the complimentary closing ...
Eileen

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England, blending true noir and the eerie, unforgettable books of Shirley Jackson and Flannery Oâe(tm)Connor, this mesmeric, terrifying, sublimely funny debut novel enthralls and shocks ...
Granta #6: Sex

Granta #6: Sex

Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq, Erika Bernalt, Mark Doty, Kristofer Folkhammar, Stefan Lindberg, Martina Montelius, Ottessa Moshfegh, Sayaka Murata, Karolina Ramqvist, Isabelle Ståhl, Henriikka Tavi, Saskia Vogel, Jeanette Winterson.
Eileen

Eileen

Otessa Moshfegh

'Hier zijn we dan. Mijn naam was Eileen Dunlop. Nu ken je me. Ik was destijds vierentwintig jaar oud en had een baan als secretaresse in een particuliere jeugdgevangenis voor tienerjongens, waar ik zevenenvijftig dollar per week voor kreeg.

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