McGlue
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Taste attributes: dramahistoricalfresh & originalunsavouryheavyintricatesurrealglossyenclosedemotive & stirringtroubled leadsself destruction/implosioninjustice/tragedy/vengeance
Boxlist takeUnsavoury and weighty: a fresh novel. Best if you like edge over warmth.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: very dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Open Library rating
3.3 / 5
3 ratings
About This Book
"McGlue is in the hold, too drunk from the night before to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A sail on the seas of literary tradition, Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard, a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection."--Page 4 of cover.
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- Author
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 128
- Taste scores
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- Source
- Open Library
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