Eileen

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Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour. So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes-a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a 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 buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first 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 in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen's story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.

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Eileen

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shortlisted for the man booker prize 2016 trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys prison eileen dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city now a major film shortlisted for the man booker prize trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and Uiterlijk 8 november in huis .. MEER INFO

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The narrator of this novel has all the advantages of life young pretty 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 in her life so she decided to spend a year under the influence of drugs designed to heal Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 augustus 2016

Aantal pagina's: 272

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Ottessa Moshfegh

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Usa

Eerste Vertaler: Anke Caroline Burger

Tweede Vertaler: Burger, Anke Caroline

Originele titel: Eileen

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Editie: 1

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 130 mm

Product hoogte: 17 mm

Product lengte: 196 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 127 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm

Verpakking lengte: 197 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 222 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9780143128755

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