- Murder, Fiction, Fiction, historical, Salem (mass.), fiction
"McGlue is in the hold, too drunk from the night before to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A sail on the seas of literary tradition, Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard, a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection."--Page 4 of cover.
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Intimate, bleak, grave and character-led.
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Fence Magazine, Incorporated, Penguin Books, Fence Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525522768
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