Name: Eileen : Roman
Rating: 3.553191489361702 (282 reviews)
ISBN: 9783954380817

Ottessa Moshfegh

Eileen : Roman

Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.

Eileen

Beth Cordall

Dark and twisted, and I couldn't stop reading!

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016* Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. But soon, Eileen’s affection for Rebecca pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination. ‘Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling’ The Times

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016

Another absolute banger by Moshfegh. She’s such a pervert and it bleeds in beautifully in everything I’ve read of hers so far. Please keep writing fucked up women in various states of emotional and physical disarray. 

james cao

I saved it for now cause the only thing I knew about it was "Christmas season read". LOL!

With Moshfegh I like that I don't predict and that prose is simple yet not uninteligent.

Altogether not my flavour, but respect. Good TV.

martian1138

I saved it for now cause the only thing I knew about it was "Christmas season read". LOL!

With Moshfegh I like that I don't predict and that prose is simple yet not uninteligent.

Altogether not my flavour, but respect. Good TV.

 wasn’t really interesting until the end

florrr

mid asssss book 

 wasn’t really interesting until the end

A. D. Knapp

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling. - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Times The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. But soon, Eileen's affection for Rebecca will pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.

Out of all of Moshfeghs Books this might be the best even though all her characters are slightly or extremely fatphobic and it never adds anything to the story… the start was quite slow but it picked up after the first half and was actually really interesting

Thea Sophie

repugnant and perverse enough to enthrall a gasp, action not nearly as suspenseful as build up promised, still a thrilling read nonetheless. i liked her desire for rebecca.

One thing about Moshfegh's writing, I find it compulsively readable. But I do not have too many thoughts about this otherwise - it came and went and I guess I felt as disaffectionate about it as the narration itself. I enjoyed the concept of it, the idea that we may long for things but we need our hands forced into action to actually reach out for them, the unreliable narration - actually, I suspect this novel could be a lot of fun to speculate about. But I do not feel up for it; I am mostly glad I read this so I can be aware of the cultural conversation.

es el segundo libro de ottessa que leo y nop, no es para mí.

catalina

Takes more than half of the book to get to the plot then uses triggering material for additional shock value. 

Karmen 

Laura 

anastasia

“I didn't want anyone to think I was susceptible to bad breath, or that there were any organic processes occurring inside my body at all. Having to breathe was an embarrassment in itself. This was the kind of girl I was.”
I’m sorry if you don’t get it but I do

Eileen : Roman

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