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"A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense"--
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Classical in form, grave, intimate and bleak.
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- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Alfaguara, Jonathan Cape, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Russian, English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780224102551
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