![]() ![]() Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession: who was Magda and how did she meet her fate?įrom the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth. She shatters her constructed marital idyll, revealing her dead husband as a controlling megalomaniac, given to cruel. ![]() In the process of embellishing Magda’s fiction, Vesta’s own privations are denuded. Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Ottessa Moshfegh Death in Her Hands Paperback Apby Moshfegh Ottessa (Author) 1,051 ratings Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 23.73 35 Used from 3.33 16 New from 8.00 6 Collectible from 20.00 Paperback 12.72 7 Used from 10.22 15 New from 8. Less provocative than Moshfegh’s other works, Death in Her Hands is an involved meditation on the intimacy between life, art, and death. While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. Eileen, 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. 'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. ![]()
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