My year of rest and relaxation

356 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2018

ISBN:
978-0-525-63193-4
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OCLC Number:
1044537985

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Early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side. The alienation of an unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend Reva, an ex-boyfriend, and her drug-pushing psychiatrist are unwholesome. As her pill-popping intensifies, so does her isolation and determination to leave behind the world's travails. She is also beset by dangerous blackouts induced by a powerful medication. -- adapted from back cover

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 …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Young women
  • Solitude
  • Medication abuse
  • Quacks and quackery

Places

  • New York (State)
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • New York