{"product_id":"eileen-paperback","title":"Eileen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOttessa Moshfegh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoon to be a major motion picture, starring Anne Hathaway \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted\u003cb\u003e for the Man Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo 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 week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes--a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story of how I disappeared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlayed out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen's story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHomesick for Another World: Stories, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMcGlue\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOttessa Moshfegh\u003c\/b\u003e is a fiction writer from New England. \u003ci\u003eEileen\u003c\/i\u003e, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN\/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeath in Her Hands\u003c\/i\u003e, her second and third novels, were \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eHomesick for Another World\u003c\/i\u003e and a novella, \u003ci\u003eMcGlue\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Southern California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42135551737991,"sku":"9780143128755","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2fc5298d2a0620d51da901f0853437c6.webp?v=1732650450","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/eileen-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}