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Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019
FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
It’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 friend.
Blackly 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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"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." (Vogue)
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Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really disappointing narrator!
- De Jessica Williams en 01-21-12
De: Wally Lamb
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- De: Juliann Garey
- Narrado por: Dan Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 496
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 453
In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- De Vira en 04-02-13
De: Juliann Garey
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Marlena
- A Novel
- De: Julie Buntin
- Narrado por: Emma Galvin
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 608
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Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Brilliant, Agonizing Portrait of a Young Woman
- De Sudi en 06-06-17
De: Julie Buntin
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
- De: Janelle Brown
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 772
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A smart, comic pause-resister about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things. When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for - until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Perfect Life Ain't So Perfect
- De Theresa en 12-28-08
De: Janelle Brown
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The Opposite of Loneliness
- Essays and Stories
- De: Marina Keegan
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 707
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Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Probably buy the book too.
- De Soupergirl en 09-14-15
De: Marina Keegan
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Breaking Night
- A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
- De: Liz Murray
- Narrado por: Liz Murray
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 896
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Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age 15, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. Then, when Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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unbelievably inspiring
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-12
De: Liz Murray
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Lit
- A Memoir
- De: Mary Karr
- Narrado por: Mary Karr
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 983
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Lit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness - and her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott" awakens her to the possibility of joy, and leads her to an unlikely faith.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Finally! One for the "Win" column
- De Kim en 03-22-10
De: Mary Karr
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Marrow
- De: Tarryn Fisher
- Narrado por: Audra Pagano
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn't spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible. It's not until she develops a friendship with her wheelchair-bound neighbor, Judah Grant, that things begin to change. When a neighborhood girl, seven-year-old Neveah Anthony, goes missing, Judah sets out to help Margo uncover what happened to her. What Margo finds changes her, and with a new perspective on life she's determined to find evil and punish it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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HUH?? I'm so confused LOL
- De ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 en 09-15-16
De: Tarryn Fisher
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I Am Not Myself These Days
- A Memoir
- De: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly---a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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depressing
- De Barry Morrison en 08-02-16
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Lie Still
- A Novel
- De: Julia Heaberlin
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gibel
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 214
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Nursing the faded scars of a long-held trauma, Emily Page and her husband, awaiting the arrival of their first child, move from New York City to the uber-wealthy Clairmont, Texas. There, Emily is swept into a world of opulent privilege and shifting loyalties. But the secrets she keeps follow her south, and with them comes the danger that her new friends can't protect her from, and her new enemies will not hesitate to use to destroy her once and for all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lie Still
- De Mary K en 06-27-17
De: Julia Heaberlin
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Private Citizens
- De: Tony Tulathimutte
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 63
The story's four whip-smart narrators - idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda - are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other's lives once again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too dour and cynical.
- De Zanriel en 01-18-17
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Black & White
- De: Dani Shapiro
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself away from her famous mother, the renowned and controversial photographer Ruth Dunne, whose towering reputation rests on the unsettling nude portraits she took of her young daughter from the ages of three to 14. As Clara charts a path connecting her childhood with her adult life, Shapiro's novel weaves together past and present in images as stark and intense as the photographs that tore the Dunnes apart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was okay
- De Lucy7 en 02-13-19
De: Dani Shapiro
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Future Home of the Living God
- A Novel
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Louise Erdrich
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backward, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
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3 out of 5 stars
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“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
- De Mel en 11-27-17
De: Louise Erdrich
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Smashed
- Story of a Drunken Girlhood
- De: Koren Zailckas
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, 24-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual". With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at 14, alcohol poisoning at 16, blacked-out sexual experience at 19, and total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at 22.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Smashed
- De John Riggs en 07-14-05
De: Koren Zailckas
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Chanel Bonfire
- De: Wendy Lawless
- Narrado por: Wendy Lawless
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
By the time Wendy Lawless turned 17, she'd known for quite some time that she didn't have a normal mother. But that didn't stop her from wanting one.... Georgann Rea didn't bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She went through men like Kleenex, and didn't like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine and the cold heart to match.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not an Engaging Listen
- De Sobriquet en 03-13-13
De: Wendy Lawless
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Why Can't I Be You
- De: Allie Larkin
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 254
When Jenny Shaw hears someone shout "Jessie!" across a hotel lobby, she impulsively answers. All her life, Jenny has toed the line, but something propels her to seize the opportunity to become Jessie Morgan, a woman to whom she bears an uncanny resemblance. Lonely in her own life, Jenny is embraced by Jessie’s warm circle of friends - and finds unexpected romance. But when she delves into Jessie’s past, Jenny discovers a secret that spurs her to take another leap into the unknown.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Silly
- De Hilary en 05-20-15
De: Allie Larkin
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Stranger Here
- How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head
- De: Jen Larsen
- Narrado por: Dani Cervone
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
Stranger Here is the brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one woman's journey from one extreme of the weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created. Insightful and unsparing in her self-examination, Larsen depicts the exhilarating highs and devastating lows she experienced as a result of her weight loss, the incredible joy of finally beginning to look like the image of herself she's always carried inside her head, and the crushing pain and confusion of feeling like a stranger in her own body after losing the weight that has always defined her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book with some disappointments
- De Ina Landry en 04-22-18
De: Jen Larsen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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- Karen McCarthy / Brenda Dass
- 04-11-19
Bizarre but intoxicating and compelling
The performance is brilliant, and it matches the benignly self centered main character. I have never found this unsympathetic a character this compelling before.
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- gwyndolin
- 10-24-21
Best audible experience in a while
Failure after failure, disappointment after disappointment, this book saved me from that slump. It's unique and compelling and nauseating and well-written, and the reader was great. If you think a good book hinges on the need for a female main character to be a puppy-saving baby-kissing tepid wash basin full of greywater then I wouldn't recommend this book, but if you like thinking critically then I would.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-22
Shallow Character
Do not understand what the author was trying to tell us here. The performance was good though
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