Eileen: A Novel

by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first-person narrator is one of the strangest, most messed-up, most pathetic—and yet, in her own inimitable way, endearing—misfits I’ve encountered in fiction. Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like Eileen.” Washington Post

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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1594206627
  • ISBN13 9781594206627
  • Publish Date 18 August 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint The Penguin Press