Thanks to her inheritance, she lives alone in an upscale East Side apartment. Our narrator is a recent Columbia grad whose parents are dead. Unlike Warhol, Moshfegh isn't just observing her sleeping subject instead, Moshfegh wants to fully enter her unnamed narrator's strange frame of mind so that her quest for shut-eye is compelling. The story goes that nine people attended the premiere in 1964 and two walked out during the first hour. Andy Warhol gave it a try with his cult film called Sleep, which was five hours and 20 minutes of footage of his lover at the time sleeping. Sleep, that activity we spend a third of our lives doing, may be the least chronicled subject in all of fiction and art. Whatever you may think of her novel's subject - and I'm still on the fence - you have to give Moshfegh props for her skill as a writer. Nick Rivierabuys the narrator’s story about treatment resistant insomnia to the tune of prescribing every drug possible to treat it and get her firmly into the world of slumber. Ottessa Moshfegh's new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a real snoozer, a daring and accomplished tale about a miserable young woman who believes that if she could only sleep long enough, she'd wake up different - refreshed and free of her existential pain. Tuttle perhaps the second most incompetent doctor in the world behind Dr. Over the years I've called many a novel a snoozer, but this is the first time I'm using that term in tribute. Tom Wingo is an unemployed South Carolinian football coach whose internist wife is having an affair with a pompous cardiac man.

Never reading a book a tik tok recommended to me again smfh and I heard this movie’s getting a Yorgos Lanthinos. A flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline ), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent. I’ve never felt such passionate distaste for a book. Maybe I shouldn’t have read a Camus book before this but just garbage.

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