# McGlue

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- Book: [McGlue](https://www.bookquiver.com/ottessa-moshfegh/mcglue) ([McGlue.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ottessa-moshfegh/mcglue.md))
- Authors: [Ottessa Moshfegh](https://www.bookquiver.com/ottessa-moshfegh)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-662-3
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2017-05-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Discover the blistering first novella from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. They said I've done something wrong?... And they've just left me down here to starve. Haven't had a drop in days more so... Salem, Massachusetts, 1851 : McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation – he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Now, McGlue wants one thing and one thing only: a drink. Because for McGlue, insufferable, terrifying memories accompany sobriety. Asail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us an unforgettable blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.