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Item Details
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EILEEN
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| By: |
Ottessa Moshfegh |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0224102559 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780224102551 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
3 March, 2016 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, who is trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's care taker, and her day job at the boys' prison. When the beautiful Rebecca Saint John arrives at the prison as the new counselor, Eileen is enchanted and unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. |
| Synopsis: |
"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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize 2016.
Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016.
Long-listed for CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2016. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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