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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate; she works an easy job at a hip art gallery and 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 loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
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I love it...
- De Claudia Gallegos en 07-12-18
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
OK story, awesome performance.
Revisado: 12-31-18
Let's face it: there's not a lot going on here story-wise. There's a lot of self-deprecating humor, sarcasm and drug use and there were plenty of points where I was rolling my eyes hearing about this person born into privilege purposely destroying themselves for no good reason. But that's also what I love about it. It's a very human story, and the reading performance is honestly what sealed the deal for me even more-so than the story itself. I found it to be particularly refreshing to slough off some of the excess holiday cheer and wallow in the dregs for a bit; helps balance things out for me. This is definitely one that I feel you have to hit at the right time, otherwise it's gonna come off real flat and boring. And it is boring, and maybe that's the point. Who knows.
What I do know is that if you're feeling a little f*ck-it around the holidays and want to do all the drugs and not feel all the feels vicariously, then here's your ticket to ride my friends.
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