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McGlue Paperback - 2014

by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen.

Short-fiction genius Ottessa Moshfegh's first novel is a gorgeously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas and in reeky corners of mid-nineteenth-century New York and points North. McGlue is a wonderwork of virtuoso prose and truths that will make you squirm and concur.--Gary Lutz

Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk 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 high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.

They said I've done something wrong? . . . And they've just left me down here to starve. They'll see this inanition and be so damned they'll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . .: the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I'll pat their heads and nod. I'll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.

Ottessa Moshfegh was awarded the 2013 Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in the Paris Review and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford, and lives in Oakland, California.

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  • Title McGlue
  • Author Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Stated First Edi
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fence Books, Albany, NY
  • Publication date 2014-11
  • ISBN 9781934200858 / 1934200859
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 6 x 0.4 in (20.32 x 15.24 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Murder
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014945617
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Her short stories have appeared in Fence, Noon, Vice, The Paris Review, and various other literary magazines and online journals. Last year she was awarded the Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in The Paris Review, and the Modern Prize in Prose given by Fence Books, who will be publishing her first novel, McGlue, in November, 2014. She was recently granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Holding a BA in English from Barnard College and an MFA in creative writing from Brown, she is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford, at work on a new novel and a collection of short stories, and lives in Oakland, California.

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Fence Books, Albany, 2014 Fence, Albany, 2014. First Edition. Scarce in the original Fence Book edition - this copy is a 1st Printing with a full number line down to 2 (Fence Books does not use a 1 in the number line). Winner of the Believer Book Award. This 2014 novella was Ottessa Moshfegh's debut, her first book. Originally published by Fence Books, it was reissued by Penguin Books in 2019. Issued in a tiny first printing by Fence, it quickly went into a later printing. In an interview with The White Review, Moshfegh talked about her experience with writing McGlue: "McGlue was really a creative act of writing through spiritual possession. I mean, I wasn t intellectualizing, I wasn t thinking about plot. McGlue came out of me like some magical demon. And when that was over it was like, Oh, thank God. The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote, "Ottessa Moshfegh s first novel reads like the swashbuckled spray of a slit throat immediate, visceral, frank, unforgiving, violent, and grotesquely… Read more
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