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Language English Pages 272 pp Originally published 2015 Country United States of America | 3.4/5 Goodreads Media type Print (hardcover) ISBN 978-1594206627 Publisher Penguin Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Similar Ottessa Moshfegh books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. It is Moshfegh's second novel.
Contents
In September 2016, it was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
Plot
The story of an unhappy young woman named Eileen in the 1960s and what happens to her during a bitter Massachusetts winter while she is 24.
Reception
The novel was well received by The New York Times. It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
Awards
References
Eileen (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA