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McGlue

A Novella

A Novella

A Novella

By Ottessa Moshfegh

By Ottessa Moshfegh

By Ottessa Moshfegh

By Ottessa Moshfegh

By Ottessa Moshfegh
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By Ottessa Moshfegh
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    About McGlue

    The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction’s most exciting young voices, now in a new edition.

    Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation–he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies 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 of recollection.

    They said I’ve done something wrong? . . . And they’ve just left me down here to starve. They’ll see this inanition and be so damned they’ll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I’ll pat their heads and nod. I’ll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.

    About McGlue

    The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction’s most exciting young voices, now in a new edition.

    Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation–he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies 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 of recollection.

    They said I’ve done something wrong? . . . And they’ve just left me down here to starve. They’ll see this inanition and be so damned they’ll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I’ll pat their heads and nod. I’ll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.

    About McGlue

    The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction’s most exciting young voices, now in a new edition.

    Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation–he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies 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 of recollection.

    They said I’ve done something wrong? . . . And they’ve just left me down here to starve. They’ll see this inanition and be so damned they’ll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I’ll pat their heads and nod. I’ll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.

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    About Ottessa Moshfegh

    Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have… More about Ottessa Moshfegh

    About Ottessa Moshfegh

    Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have… More about Ottessa Moshfegh

    About Ottessa Moshfegh

    Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have… More about Ottessa Moshfegh

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Crime Mysteries | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 08, 2019 | 160 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780525522768

    Category: Literary Fiction | Crime Mysteries | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 08, 2019 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9780525522751

    Category: Literary Fiction | Crime Mysteries | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jan 08, 2019 | 221 Minutes | ISBN 9780525641148

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    Praise

    “… a splashy new edition … Moshfegh’s first book introduces the kind of character, in all his psychological wildness and vivid grotesquerie that her others are known for, and readers will be more than intrigued.” — Booklist

    “Moshfegh’s fiction often fetishizes the repellent (vomit, blood, our capacity for callously using each other), but in time McGlue’s tale acquires tenderness of a sort. That’s partly thanks to Moshfegh’s lyricism . . . A potent, peculiar, and hallucinatory anti-romance.” — Kirkus Reviews

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