The new novel by the author of the 2016 Booker shortlisted Eileen is at once a jumble of influences — Oblomov by way of Tama Janowitz and Elizabeth Wurtzl, Bartleby with a touch of Bright Lights, Big City, a lunatic psychiatrist who melds Ayn Rand and William Burroughs — and unnervingly original.
Alex Clark
Dreams of oblivion
To escape the superficial life that surrounds her, a rich Manhattan orphan puts herself to sleep for a year in order to experience rebirth

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