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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a 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 buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father s messes When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first 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. Best Read [ Eileen ] author [ Ottessa Moshfegh ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I couldn t be bothered to deal with fixing things I preferred to wallow in the problem, dream of better days.this book takes place in the early sixties and is about a woman named eileen dunlop, a tightly wound and inwardly unstable twenty four year old woman who works at a juvenile correctional facility for boys and lives with her alcoholic father in a shambles of a house it chronicles the events of one week in a frigid new england winter after which she will unexpectedly leave town, never to I couldn t be bothered to deal with fixing things I preferred to wallow in the problem, dream of better days.this book takes place in the early sixties and is about a woman named eileen dunlop, a tightly wound and inwardly unstable twenty four year old woman who works at a juvenile correctional facility for boys and lives with her alcoholic father in a shambles of a house it chronicles the events of one week in a frigid new england winter after which she will unexpectedly leave town, never to return it s about obsession, crime, loneliness, frustration and a slow psychological unrav...3.5 stars If you didn t like The Girl on the Train, you certainly won t like this If you re interested in characters over plot, however, this is another solid entry into a excellent year for psychological thrillers Eileen is one of the most pitiable and despicable characters I ve ever read she is not only neurotically self absorbed and insecure and suffering from severe sexual and emotional repression, but she s also prone to feverishly obsessive behavior She lewdly fixates on a muscular gua 3.5 stars If you didn t like The Girl on the Train, you certainly won t like this If you re interested in characters over plot, however, this is another solid entry into a excellent year for psychological thrillers Eileen is one of the most pitiable and despicable characters I ve ever read she is not only neurotically self absorbed and insecure and suff...5 repugnant, vile, fierce, exhibitionistic stars 10th Favorite Read of 2016 I have never been so reluctant to give a book 5 stars This is a book that directs all its murky gaze on the darkness that lurks within women Ms Moshfegh slowly and repetitively dissects Eileen into all her gory parts from the darkness of her sexual fantasies that include post pubescent boys, unattainable women, to visualizing her coworkers engaging in sex that both disgusts and titilates her Eileen s psyche is 5 repugnant, vile, fierce, exhibitionistic stars 10th Favorite Read of 2016 I have never been so reluctant to give a book 5 stars This is a book that directs all its murky gaze on the darkness that lurks within women Ms Moshfegh slowly and repetitively dissects Eileen into all her gory parts from the darkness of her sexual fantasies that include post pubescent boys, unattainable women, to visualizing her coworkers engaging in sex that both disgusts and titilates her Eileen s psyche is laid bare and we see ugliness, neediness, pettiness, the most...Eileen is nothing like the upbeat sassy song of old, C mon Eileen Oh contraire She is mind shackled and deeply disturbed Reminiscing, Eileen tells her story that begins from her early 20 s, in a town she refers to as X ville, in a nonchalant way, telling it like it is The self loathing the daydreaming of love and escape the kleptomania the lack of hygiene A misfit haunted by self image issues No doubt a result from her upbringing and her emotionally distant drunk d...Ottessa Moshfegh s debut novel Eileen sounded like a great and intriguing read The 1960 s, a girl s escape from a boring life in a small New England town, a mysterious crime there are lots of interesting plot points going for this book, which will be released in August 2015.Unfortunately, this does not necessarily translate to the writing Don t get me wrong, Eileen Dunlop is an interesting yet thoroughly unlikable character, and her insights into her life range from bland and depressive to c Ottessa Moshfegh s debut novel Eileen sounded like a great and intriguing read The 1960 s, a girl s esc...UPDATE Kindle 1.99 special today I listened to the audiobook but others who read it also gave this book high reviews Its a book I ll never forget but read many reviews to see if its for you I loved it Audiobook Eileen. LOOKING BACK at her life.when she was 24 years of age living in Massachusetts.At the start of the story she tells us in a week she will run away.Plus we know Eileen has a menial secretary type job at a boys correctional residence AT AGE UPDATE Kindle 1.99 special today I listened to the audiobook but others who read it also gave this book high reviews Its a book I ll never forget but read many reviews to see if its for you I loved it Audiobook Eileen. LOOKING BACK at her life.when she was 24 years of age living in Massachusetts.At the start of the story she tells us in a week she will run away.Plus we know Eileen has a menial secretary type job at a boys correctiona...Do not read Eileen if you don t like repulsive characters, if you re turned off by graphic descriptions of bodily smells and filth, or if you like your novels to be action packed Do read Eileen if you like dark character studies and can stand to be strung along for most of a book before getting to the crux of what is being foreshadowed Eileen the narrator looks back at a few days in 1964 when she was 24 years, and living a nasty life in a small town with her nasty father working at a nas Do not read Eileen if you don t like repulsive characters, if you re turned off by graphic descriptions of bodily smells and filth, or if you like your novels to be action packed Do read Eileen if you like dark character studies and can stand to be strung along for most of a book before getting to the crux of what is being foreshadowed Eileen the narrator looks back at a few days in 1964 when she was 24 years, and living a nasty life in a small town with her nasty father working at a nasty job And Eileen is not particularly nice either in fact she s pretty nasty and she pretty much knows it Enough said There s no point revealing the plot This one is an experience rather than a story, and it will work for some and not for others I liked read...SELF LOATHING AS A FORM OF ARTIn the past few years quite by chance I have come across a rich seam of female self loathing in fiction You might think that women writers would be all about positive tales of overcoming the bleakness, and I m sure many are, but not in these books Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino the unnamed un beautiful older sister spends her whole life hating everybody especially herself A Day Off by Storm Jameson the unnamed middle aged alcoholic frump spends a day hating everybod SELF LOATHING AS A FORM OF ARTIn the past few years quite by chance I have come across a rich seam of female self loathing in fiction You might think that women writers would be all about positive tales of overcoming the bleakness, and I m sure many are, but not in these books Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino the unnamed un beautiful older sister spends her whole life hating everybody especially herself A Day Off by Storm Jameson the unnamed middle aged alcoholic frump spends a day hating everybody especially herself Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill the unnamed am I seeing a pattern h...Updated Review December 23 27, 2017I can t believe I didn t like this the first time I read it Although I do remember enjoying the writing style but not being that impressed with the actual storyline and I still stand by that opinion the story isn t the most impressive part of this book But I think Eileen is one of the most fascinating, confusing, and well constructed characters I ve ever read about It definitely helped to read her short story collection to get an even better idea of Moshfe Updated Review December 23 27, 2017I can t believe I didn t like this the first time I read it Although I do remember enjoying the writing style but not being that impressed with the actual storyline and I still stand by that opinion the story isn t the most impressive part of this book But I think Eileen is one of the most fascinating, confusing, and well constructed characters I ve ever read about It definitely helped to read her short story collection to get an even better idea of Moshfegh s style and literary ambitions before returning to this because it gave me a much greater appreciation for it I really can t wait to see what she writes next Original Review July...EILEEN did not work for me..at all.EILEEN Dunlap is a 24 year old disturbed young woman She is unhappy, has atrocious nutrition, personal hygiene and lives like a pig She has no self worth, her thoughts for the most part are nasty and morbid and she is trapped in a forlorn life she detests with a passion.until aninaneopportunity to make a change presents itsel...

Eileen
  • English
  • 13 April 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 272 pages
  • 1594206627
  • Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Eileen