McGlue

Read the novel that catapulted Ottessa Moshfegh to literary stardom: a gorgeously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas

'One of America's most exciting - and most provocative - young novelists' Financial Times

'You’re in safe, if sticky hands... A wild ride' The Times


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 of recollection.

Wonderful

Guardian

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 author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. She lives in Southern California.
Details
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • ISBN: 9781787335547
  • Length: 128 pages
  • Dimensions: 224mm x 15mm x 142mm
  • Weight: 243g
  • Price: £14.99
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