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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Savage funny frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer - VogueIt s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young thin pretty a recent Columbia graduate she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for like everything else by her inheritance But there is a vacuum at the heart of things and it isn t just the loss of her parents in college or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friendBlackly funny both merciless and compassionate ? dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 ? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America s major young writers
Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young thin pretty a recent Columbia graduate she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for like everything else by her inheritance But there is a vacuum at the heart of things and it isn t just the loss of her parents in college or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friendBlackly funny both merciless and compassionate ? dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 ? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America s major young writers
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