My Year of Rest and Relaxation

'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.'<BR><BR> This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely.<BR><BR> It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss.<BR><BR>Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.