McGlue

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Ottessa Moshfegh: McGlue (2014)

118 pages

English language

Published Feb. 26, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-934200-85-8
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OCLC Number:
894523708

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4 stars (2 reviews)

"McGlue is in the hold, too drunk from the night before 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 seas of literary tradition, Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard, a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection."--Page 4 of cover.

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Goodreads Review of McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh

4 stars

A rotten showcase of the inner and outer turmoil of a sad, sad man, Moshfegh continues to be the best at writing the worst humanity has to offer. Set in the 1850s, McGlue is a “sailor” invited to work on his current vessel by what seems to be a man he met by chance and his only friend, Johnson, who he is accused of killing. The narrative shifts back and forth between the events leading up to the murder and the present day as McGlue is being apprehended and tried for the crime. Being told from the perspective of McGlue and with McGlue being a vicious alcoholic with severe brain damage, the narrative is hard to follow most of the time, but as the story progresses you learn more about the latent emotions that perhaps led to these unfortunate events.

Wrought with homophobia, homoeroticism, and blatant racism, this is a …

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Subjects

  • Murder
  • Fiction