McGlue

Author: Moshfegh, Ottessa

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 October 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Dive into this gloriously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas.

Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, 1851: McGlue is down in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name, situation or orientation – but he has blood on his hands. He may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. As the ship makes its voyage home to Salem, Massachusetts, intolerable memory accompanies reluctant 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.

'One of America's most exciting - and most provocative - young novelists' Financial Times'You’re in safe, if sticky, hands... A wild ride' The Times