Homesick for Another World: Stories (Signed First Edition)

Ottessa Moshfegh

ISBN 10: 0399562885 / ISBN 13: 9780399562884

Edité par Penguin Press, New York, 2017

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New York, Penguin, 2017. First edition. First printing (with full number sequence including the 1). Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on title page in month of publicati0n (name and dated only). You cannot find a better copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Homesick for Another World: Stories (Signed First Edition)
• Éditeur: Penguin Press, New York
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0399562885
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780399562884
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1er tirage
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time

"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris

Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel.

And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters  are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion.  Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.

À propos de l'auteur

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, her second novel, was a New York Times bestseller.