My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Posted on 18 December 2018 by Ottessa Moshfegh

A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend It s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility what could be so terribly wrong This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate dangling its legs over the ledge of 9 11 this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America s major young writers working at the height of her powers. Download My Year of Rest and Relaxation – kino-fada.fr Well, this one went down nice n easy, like I imagine an Ambien would.ADMISSION I m a little bit in love with this author, this woman who is often maligned for being gross and writing about nasty female characters, for being deliberately provocative relying solely on shock value, and oh don t forget, she s just plain unlikable All of which makes me say SO WHAT Ottessa Moshfegh does write about icky things people do, magnifies the cruel dark bits of life we would rather gloss over If you ne Well, this one went down nice n easy, like I imagine an Ambien would.ADMISSION I m a little bit in love with this author, this woman who is often maligned for being gross and writing about nasty female characters, for being deliberately provocative relying solely on shock value, and oh don t forget, she s just plain unlikable All of which makes me say SO WHAT Ottessa Moshfegh does write about icky things people do, magnifies the cruel dark bits of life we would rather gloss over If you need your literature to be overall pleasant and safe, clear of eye gunk and shit and pubic hair, I would give her a wide berth And that s 100% okay not every book is for every reader But if you re willing to read something dark and dangerous, to laugh at wicked, sardonic humour, to listen to a pitiless, confrontati... I was finally doing something that really mattered Sleep felt productive Something was getting sorted out I knew in my heart this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then that when I d slept enough, I d be okay I d be renewed, reborn I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I I was finally doing something that really mattered Sleep felt productive Something was getting sorted out I knew in my heart this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then that when I d slept enough, I d be okay I d be renewed, reborn I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation. Whew I had a surprising reaction to this novel O...Audiobookread by Julia WhelanQuestions I had were Are there really psychiatrists this bad and who has friends like Reva My biggest question of all how would this funny ok, tragic comic , but still laughable to me fascinating fantasy possibly end for our girl in hibernation I was curious as hell I enjoyed the journey to the end too the dialogue the absurdity I m thankful I never felt anxious or addicted to binge read this one My breaks were powerful I was often still eng Audiobookread by Julia WhelanQuestions I had were Are there really psychiatrists this bad and who has friends like Reva My biggest question of all how would this funny ok, tragic comic , but still laughable to me fascinating fantasy possibly end for our girl in hibernation I was curious as hell I enjoyed the journey to the end too the dialogue the absurdity I m thankful I never felt anxious or addicted to binge read this one My breaks were powerful I was often still engaged thinking about the characters and their choices I d love to know what inspired Ottessa to write it How would a REAL FULL YEAR TIME OUT transform heal and empower me Limited TV Whoopi Goldberg and Harrison Fordwere favorites for our narrator No social media no crazy psychiatrist or fr...Rating 4.5 starsI was a fan of Ottessa Moshfegh after reading her book Eileen I really enjoyed the read and could not wait forfrom this author But her next book came out and to be honest, I didn t like it In fact, I didn t finish it Why see my 3 reason below So when I saw she had a new book coming out, I was excited but a bit worried Would the third times the charm fate indicate if I would readof her books or just say she s not for me I m so happy to say I really enjoyed Rating 4.5 starsI was a fan of Ottessa Moshfegh after reading her book Eileen I really enjoyed the read and could not wait forfrom this author But her next book came out and to be honest, I didn t like it In fact, I didn t finish it Why see my 3 reason below So when I saw she had a new book coming out, I was excited but a bit worried Would the third times the charm fate indicate if I would readof her books or just say she s not for me I m so happy to say I really enjoyedodd choice of words considering the subject matter.this read and can t wait for her next book.My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a hard one to talk about in a review It s about an unnamed narrator telling her story of taking a year off from life to sleep She s thin, blonde, pretty and seems to have it all She lives in a great apartment in NYC and works in a fab art gallery, ehsome of the exhibits though are a bit out there But she is utterly depressed She doesn t come out and say that, but just because from the outside it looks like she has...Review from Hello Yellow Room Someone standing in line with Otessa Moshfegh at a Starbucks must have said aloud I m not sure there s a novel that sufficiently embraces apathy brought about by woeful depression, and Otessa said, Hold my latte If that s not a factual depiction of how this novel was conceived, then my new favorite author Ms Moshfegh herself ca...FIVE SARDONIC STARS My repeated claim to love unlikable characters is put to the test in this darkly irreverent, strange fable I m sticking to my claim I do love most of the unlikable people in My Year of Rest and Relaxation Humor goes a long way when writing unpleasant characters The author is sophisticated and brilliant when it comes to injecting absurdly wry observations on both the glitter and the grime of New York City Contrary to the lovely 18th century painting of a leisurely young w FIVE SARDONIC STARS My repea...4 Stars I am overcome by awe, not because she looks like Reva, and I think it s her, almost exactly her, and not because Reva and I had been friends, or because I ll never see her again, but because she is beautiful There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake This was my first Otessa Moshfegh novel and it lived up to the hype The cover threw me off as it almost has a historical fiction look to it but I will tell you that this is not anywhere near historical fic 4 Stars I am overcome by awe, not because she looks like Reva, and I think it s her, almost exactly her, and not because Reva and I had been friends, or because I ll never see her again, but because she is beautiful There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake This was my first Otessa Moshfegh novel and it lived up to the hype The cover threw me off as it almost has a historical fiction look to it but I will tell you that this is not anywhere near historical fiction.This is a story about a ...Listening to this book was like watching Girls.Occasionally funny and occasionally insightful in a limited WASP y kind of way, but mostly ridiculous, privileged, pointless, and, finally, thin.Pretty brutal and absolutely brilliant.This is a book narrated by a very depressed and beautiful young woman who has graduated from college, works in an art gallery, and lives in New York, the year is 2001 She was recently lost both her parents, her father to cancer, and her mother close afterward from pills alcohol She also has an awful relationship with a man who is on again off again.So she decided she needs a year of rest, to just sleep for a year, consistently She finds a psychiatrist who really is a horrible doctor, a pil This is a book narrated by a very depressed and beautiful young woman who has graduated from college, works in an art gallery, and lives in New York, the year is 2001 She was recently lost both her parents, her father to cancer, and her mother close afterward from pills alcohol She also has an awful relationship with a man who is on again off again.So she decided she needs a year of rest, to just sleep for a year, consistently She finds a psychia...

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18 December 2018

Ottessa Moshfegh