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McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh
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Description for McGlue
hardcover.
Dive into this gloriously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas.
Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, 1851: McGlue is down in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name, situation or orientation – but he has blood on his hands. He may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. As the ship makes its voyage home to Salem, Massachusetts, intolerable memory accompanies reluctant sobriety.
A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787335547
SKU
9781787335547
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-5
About Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England and the author of six books. Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the ... Read more
Reviews for McGlue
Wonderful
Guardian
Strange and beautiful
LA Times
A gorgeously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas and in reeky corners of mid-nineteenth-century New York and points North. McGlue is a wonderwork of virtuoso prose and truths that will make you squirm and concur You’re in safe, if sticky hands with an Ottessa Moshfegh ... Read more
Guardian
Strange and beautiful
LA Times
A gorgeously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas and in reeky corners of mid-nineteenth-century New York and points North. McGlue is a wonderwork of virtuoso prose and truths that will make you squirm and concur You’re in safe, if sticky hands with an Ottessa Moshfegh ... Read more