ISBN-13: 9781984879356 Summary From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession: who was Magda and how did she meet her fate?įrom the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth. Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh, 2020 Penguin Publishing 272 pp. She shatters her constructed marital idyll, revealing her dead husband as a controlling megalomaniac, given to cruel. (Some of her time has been given over to screenwriting projects, one of them an adaptation of her own. In the process of embellishing Magda’s fiction, Vesta’s own privations are denuded. Death Becomes Her: Inside Ottessa Moshfeghs morbidly chic world Fresh off her best-selling phenomenon, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh returns with the horrifically. Moshfegh wrote Death in Her Hands in 2015, before editing it for publication last year.
Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Less provocative than Moshfegh’s other works, Death in Her Hands is an involved meditation on the intimacy between life, art, and death. While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. 'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge.
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