Eileen: Now a major film
Mar 2016 · Random House
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**NOW A MAJOR FILM**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**
It is winter-time and Eileen Dunlop is dreaming of escaping her life...
In the meantime, her time is spent caring for her alcoholic father, working as a secretary in a prison and shoplifting.
When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship.
But soon, Eileen's affection for Rebecca pulls her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION**
'Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling' The Times
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD*
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**
It is winter-time and Eileen Dunlop is dreaming of escaping her life...
In the meantime, her time is spent caring for her alcoholic father, working as a secretary in a prison and shoplifting.
When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship.
But soon, Eileen's affection for Rebecca pulls her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION**
'Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling' The Times
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD*
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4.1
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May 13, 2017
Well this is a terrible read, it's no thriller that's for sure, a big boring uphill slog to read. Pointless utterly pointless
Chloe Hearnden
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October 14, 2023
Eileen is the gross and twisted darkness inside every weirdo chewed up and spat in our faces. Horrifyingly brilliant.
Charlie Oldnal
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May 21, 2024
Really quite terrible. Lapvona is the only novel by the author worry reading
About the author
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book, the novella, McGlue, was recently published by Vintage. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her collection of stories, Homesick for Another World, was published in 2017.
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