McGlue (The Fence Modern Prize in Prose)
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934200859 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her short stories have appeared in Fence, Noon, Vice, The Paris Review, and various other literary magazines and online journals. Holding a BA in English from Barnard College and an MFA in creative writing from Brown, she is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford, at work on a new novel and a collection of short stories, and lives in Oakland, California.. About the AuthorOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Last year she was awarded the Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in The Paris Review, and the Modern Prize in Prose given by Fence Books, who will be publishing her first novel, McGlue, in November, 2014. She was recently granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
They'll see this inanition and be so damned they'll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. I'll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.Ottessa Moshfegh was awarded the 2013 Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in the Paris Review and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford, and lives in Oakland, California.. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen."Short-fiction genius Ottessa Moshfegh's first novel is a gorgeously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas and in reeky corners of mid-nineteenth-century New York and points North. McGlue is a wonderwork of virtuoso prose and truths that will make you squirm and concur."—Gary LutzSalem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation—he may have killed a man. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a kn
She was recently granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Last year she was awarded the Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in The Paris Review, and the Modern Prize in Prose given by Fence Books, who will be publishing her first novel, McGlue, in November, 2014. Holding a BA in English from Barnard College and an MFA in cre
Spectacular Amazon Customer This is why I read, to be shocked and transformed like this. Spectacular.. Sodden with bourbon and mired in filth Jacob Kiernan Toss Moby Dick overboard: Twenty pages on the color white, who wants to read that screed? And we all know how it ends—the whale gets run over by a train. Ok, I’ll admit that part is kind of fantastic. But for those of you growing grim around the mouth in this damp and drizzly February, McGlue is the perfect substitute for a pistol and ball. Its aqueous setting will please land-dwellers and water-gazers alike. Those familiar with Moshfegh’s standout work from the Paris Review might be surprised by the historical backdrop of her first novel. Yet McGlue lands with the f. Amazon Customer said doomed love story.. Wow. Just, wow. Sailors, murder, grog, visible head cracks (!), and a surprising, moving, doomed love story what more could you want?