![]() ![]() However, Moshfegh’s unflinching psychological character study of Eileen is exceptionally perceptive and laced with black humour. ![]() Her morbid self-loathing, resentment, repression and obsessive behaviour is extreme, particularly her fixation on her physical appearance and the unpleasant habits she develops whilst living in squalid conditions with her father. However, when she meets Rebecca Saint John, a new colleague at the correctional facility, events begin to take an unexpected turn.Įven for those who enjoy reading books featuring unlikeable or unreliable narrators, Eileen is a highly controversial character. During the week leading up to Christmas, Eileen Dunlop is planning to disappear from her coastal Massachusetts home town which she names only as X-ville and start a new life in New York City. ![]() ![]() In 1964, the eponymous narrator of ‘Eileen’ by Ottessa Moshfegh is twenty-four years old, living with her alcoholic father and working as a secretary at a correctional facility for teenage boys. ![]()
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