About the Book: My Year Of Rest and Relaxation
From the man Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen ithe new York Times/bestseller
savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy. my year of rest
and relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer vogue
its the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be
so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: young, thin,
pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the upper East
side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there
is a vacuum at