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“My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. 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.

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I was not a narcoleptic–I never fell asleep when I didn’t want to. I was more of a somnniac. A somnophile. I’d always loved sleeping.’and so our nameless narrator spins her confession out into the aether. blonde, thin, financially well-off, art grad, eye candy receptionist in small chic manhattan art gallery specializing in hyperrealistic sculptures and installation art, the type of fashionably sleek woman of movies and magazines, the epitome of glamour, desired by hundreds of young women and sexually pursued by moguls, rock and rap performers, athletes and actors. her thinness admired by reva, her cloying best friend, who pukes a lot. girl puke is unavoidable in this novel. trevor, the smug, manhattan portfolio manager, her dominating demeaning ex-lover, the older man, who took her virginity as an eighteen-year-old co-ed and continues making infrequent visits whenever he wants to sexually dominate a woman younger than the women his age he frequently dates.