McGlue

Discover the blistering first novella from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

They said I've done something wrong?... And they've just left me down here to starve. Haven't had a drop in days more so...

Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation – he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Now, McGlue wants one thing and one thing only: a drink. Because for McGlue, insufferable, terrifying memories accompany sobriety. Asail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us an unforgettable blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.

Wonderful

Guardian

About Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England and the author of six books. Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsell­ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. She lives in Southern California.
Details
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9781784706623
  • Length: 128 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 98g
  • Price: £8.99
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