My Year of Rest and Relaxation Pushkin Vertigo all in the shadow of

all in the shadow of nuclear war

not of an inexorable logic of technological advance

break-ins and escapes

humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban

and finding some balance in between

My Year of Rest and Relaxation Pushkin Vertigo all in the shadow ofOur narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best