Eileen
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
A lonely prison employee’s fascination with a new colleague threatens to transform the life she hopes to escape. Eileen lives with her alcoholic father and works in a juvenile detention facility in a bleak New England town. The arrival of a captivating colleague offers an unfamiliar sense of possibility. Moshfegh follows the narrator’s uneasy mixture of shame, desire, and resentment as her hopes for escape take a disturbing direction.
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Eileen
Eileen lives with her alcoholic father and works in a juvenile detention facility in a bleak New England town. The arrival of a captivating colleague offers an unfamiliar sense of possibility. Moshfegh follows the narrator’s uneasy mixture of shame, desire, and resentment as her hopes for escape take a disturbing direction.
Why read it?
A lonely prison employee’s fascination with a new colleague threatens to transform the life she hopes to escape. Explore Shame, Obsession and Escape in this book.
Edition details
- Author / creators: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Language: English
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- Edition publication year: 2016
About the Author
Book Details
- Author
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 272
- Publication year
- 2016
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