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Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
"A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very …
Renata rated Girl, Woman, Other: 5 stars
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell …
Renata rated Angels & Insects: Two Novellas: 1 star
Renata rated Mostly Dead Things: 4 stars
Renata rated My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 2 stars
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others …
Renata rated The Wych Elm: 4 stars
Renata rated By Nightfall: 2 stars
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
The whole course of one’s life really can change in an instant.
Peter is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a …
Renata rated The Days of Abandonment: 4 stars
Renata rated The Left Hand of Darkness: 3 stars
Renata rated The Chronology of Water: 5 stars
Renata rated Supper Club: 3 stars
Renata rated The driver's seat: 5 stars
The driver's seat by Muriel Spark
Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, …
Renata rated Never Anyone But You: 2 stars
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne …