Author | Ottessa Moshfegh |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Published | 2015 |
Publisher | Penguin Press |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 272 pp |
ISBN |
Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. It is Moshfegh's second novel.
In September 2016, it was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
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.
The novel was well received by The New York Times. It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.