My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel -

Ottessa Moshfegh

Penguin Books

2019

290 páginas

9h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780525522126

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible
A New York Times Bestseller

"One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh's] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood." --Vogue

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.

Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

Resenhas (17)

5 (Perfeito)

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já vi muuuuita gente reclamando que o livro é monótono, mas esse é o ponto!
a monotonia e calmaria que a narradora percorre são retratadas da forma mais interessante possível
o relacionamento dela com os pais, principalmente com a mãe, e como isso afeta a relação dela com a reva também é algo que eu achei muito bem desenvolvido

as facetas da saúde mental debilitada da narradora, como por exemplo o fato dela lembrar o leitor de como ela é linda a todo momento, não é retratado, na minha opnião, como algo irritante mas sim extremamente real e coerente

a ottessa conseguiu me prender em um livro cujo tema central é a monotonia! tô doida pra ler outros livros dela