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Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Eileen about?
A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is... Also by Ottessa Moshfegh 2 Title Page 3 Copyright 4 Contents 5 Dedication 6 1964 7 FRIDAY 15 SATURDAY 35 SUNDAY 51 MONDAY 64 TUESDAY 84 WEDNESDAY 108 CHRISTMAS EVE 126 THE END 172 VisionVox,remessa_00
Who reads Eileen?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.39 / 5 (32 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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