EILEEN [Signed]

Moshfegh, Ottessa

ISBN 10: 0224102559 / ISBN 13: 9780224102551

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, UK, 2016

About this Item

Octavo, 259 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is white with red and black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "£14.99" on front flap. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head and tail. Textblock edges have mild age-toning. Signed and dated "Oct. 24, 2016" by Ottessa Moshfegh on title page. Shelved Room C. 1402027. Special Collections.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EILEEN [Signed]
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, UK
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224102559
• ISBN 13: 9780224102551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

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. - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Times

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s carer in his squalid home and her day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a handsome prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted and unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.

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, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.

About the Author

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England and the author of six books. Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsell­ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. She lives in Southern California.