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The Black Veilby Rick MoodyISBN 0316578991 (0-316-57899-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Veil'Book summary:Readers and critics of Rick Moody generally praise the long and lyrical sentences, sarcastic wit, and meandering asides typical of his misunderstood but sensitive protagonists. For Moody fans who have come to appreciate the Holden Caulfieldesque pathos beneath the sense of urgency and big vocabulary in books like The Ice Storm and Demonology, his memoir The Black Veil will offer more of the same. What's different, however, is that this time the protagonist is Moody himself. The book, subtitled A Memoir with Digressions, reads at times like a delicious essay collection outlining Moody's Connecticut childhood (complete with recipes for the perfect lobster roll and significance of the wax bean), and at times like a work of passionate literary criticism. But whether Moody discusses the impact of his parents' divorce, his alcoholic excesses in college and Manhattan, his time at an inpatient psychiatric unit, or his obvious passion for literature, his memoir does what so many current works in this genre do not: it shows the author looking beyond himself, through literature, to a world larger and more spiritual than the one in which he lives.
The titular black veil refers to a Hawthorne story (appended) about a New England minister Moody believes may be a relative. Moody's book is not so much about his quest to research the story of the black veil, despite the trek he makes to Maine to do just that, as it is the account of his personal relationship to that story. While die-hard Moody fans may find the book a surprising departure, those who want to know him more intimately will enjoy accompanying him on this personal and intellectual journey. --Jane Hodges [via]
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Demonologyby Rick MoodyISBN 0316592102 (0-316-59210-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Demonology'Book summary:Rick Moody is a traditionalist. Despite his page-long paragraphs, brand-name dropping, obsessive cataloguing of workplace ritual, seemingly random italicizing, and inevitable digs at "multinational entertainment providers," Moody makes classically beautiful short stories. His tools are those of any master storyteller: detail, catharsis, the right word at the right moment. Granted, the details can be unexpected: e.g., comparative values of different Pez dispensers. And his brand of catharsis can be mighty abrupt. "Now the intolerable part of this story begins," he warns us in the title story of Demonology, while "Hawaiian Night" includes the ominous spoiler, "Here comes tragedy." Yet his word choice is always immaculate.
Moody's collection is framed by two stories in which the narrator ruminates over his dead sister. In the first, "The Mansion on the Hill," he speaks directly to the departed:
You were a fine sister, but you changed your mind all the time, and I had no idea if these things I'd attributed to you in the last year were features of the you I once knew, or whether, in death, you had become the property of your mourners, so that we made of you a puppet.
The story promptly turns into a revenge fantasy, with an absurd climax wherein the narrator attacks his sister's former fiancé. "Demonology" deals with the actual circumstances of her death. First we see her tucking the kids into bed prior to her fatal seizure: "And my sister kissed her daughter multiply, because my niece is a little impish redhead, and it's hard not to kiss her." Moody then switches tone smoothly and beautifully as the medics work on the dead woman: "Her body jumped while they shocked her--she was a revenant in some corridor of simultaneities--but her heart wouldn't start." A writer who pins down such fluidities can get up to all the experimentation he likes. We'll go along willingly. --Claire Dederer [via] 
The Diviners: A Novelby Rick MoodyISBN 0316013277 (0-316-01327-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diviners: A Novel'Book summary:During one month in the autumn of election year 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga, the one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert; the sure-to-please-everyone multigenerational TV miniseries about diviners, those miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and hungry and love-starved) humankind. Among the wannabes: Vanessa Meandro, hot-tempered head of Means of Production, an indie film company; her harried and varied staff; a Sikh cab driver, promoted to the office of -theory and practice of TV+; a bipolar bicycle messenger, who makes a fateful mis-delivery; two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls; a thriller writer who gives Botox parties; the daughter of an L.A. big-shot, who is hired to fetch Vanessa+s Krispy Kremes and more; a word man who coined the phrase -inspired by a true story+; and a supreme court justice who wants to write the script.A few true artists surface in the course of Moody+s rollicking but intricately woven novel, and real emotion eventually blossoms for most of Vanessa+s staff at Means of Production, even herself. THE DIVINERS is a cautionary tale about pointless ambition; a richly detailed look at the interlocking worlds of money, politics, addiction, sex, work, and family in modern America; and a masterpiece of comedy that will bring Rick Moody to a still higher level of appreciation. [via]
Garden Stateby Rick MoodyISBN 0316190071 (0-316-19007-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Garden State: A Novel'Book summary:On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fiction available in handsome new paperback editions. [via]
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The Ice Stormby Rick MoodyISBN 0316579211 (0-316-57921-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice Storm'Book summary:A family romance set in the 1970s follows the Hoods as they skid out of control in suburban Connecticut and as Watergate unfolds and troops head home from Vietnam. By the author of Garden State. 22,500 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisitedby Rick Moody , Darcey SteinkeISBN 0316191396 (0-316-19139-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited'Book summary:Like many of their contemporaries, novelists Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke attended Sunday school as kids but drifted away from religion as adolescents. Now, as adults, they are grappling anew with the teachings of the Bible. Rejecting the hard-edged dogmas of many mainline denominations, they have reread the New Testament, reviewed their own life experiences -- and come up with their own personal interpretations of Christian tenets.
Moody and Steinke's renewed interest in Christianity struck a chord with other notable writers -- and the result is this extraordinary collection of original essays. Gathering together some of the freshest and most thought-provoking voices in contemporary literature -- including Madison Smartt Bell, Benjamin Cheever, Lydia Davis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lucy Grealey, bell hooks, Ann Padgett, Joanna Scott, and Kim Wozencraft -- joyful Noise offers a fascinating range of probing and very personal interpretations of what Christianity means today. Whether it's Kathy Bowman's poetic riffs on the significance of "Jesus's Feet" or Barry Hannah's guilt-tinged recollections of a neighborhood outcast who went on to find fulfillment as a hippie minister, these remarkable and wonderfully eclectic meditations are sure to find an eager audience among boomers and twentysomethings looking to renew their faith. [via]More editions of Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited:
- Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited: ISBN 0316579955 (0-316-57995-5)
Softcover, Back Bay Books - Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited: ISBN 0316579289 (0-316-57928-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited: ISBN 0316191396 (0-316-19139-6)
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- Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited: ISBN 0316579955 (0-316-57995-5)
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Rick MoodyISBN 0195168445 (0-19-516844-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author's unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives.
In the stunning opening chapter of The Mayor of Casterbridge, a drunken hay-trusser, Michael Henchard, sells his wife and daughter for five guineas to a sailor. The book follows Henchard who, overcome by guilt after the sale of his wife, swears he will not have another drink of alcohol for twenty years. By hard work, he becomes a wealthy dealer in corn and hay, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But after eighteen years, his wife and child Elizabeth-Jane return and, from this point on, his fortunes decline, in part through bad luck and in part through his own obstinate nature. In the end, his rival Farfrae has Henchard's business, his house, Lucretta, and he even becomes mayor of Casterbridge. Henchard eventually dies in a miserable hut on Egdon Heath.
This special edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge features a splendid introduction by fiction writer Rick Moody, who calls Hardy's classic "the first great novel about alcoholism." [via]More editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge:
Purple Americaby Rick MoodyISBN 0316190063 (0-316-19006-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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- Purple America: ISBN 0316559776 (0-316-55977-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co - Purple America: ISBN 0002256878 (0-00-225687-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Purple America: ISBN 0002257874 (0-00-225787-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Purple America: ISBN 0006551025 (0-00-655102-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Purple America: ISBN 0316579254 (0-316-57925-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - Purple America: ISBN 0316190063 (0-316-19006-3)
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- Purple America: ISBN 0316559776 (0-316-55977-6)
Quaker Spirituality: Selected Writingsby Spiritual Classics HarperCollins, Douglas Van Steere, Rick MoodyISBN 0060578726 (0-06-057872-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Right Livelihoods: Three Novellasby Rick MoodyISBN 0316166359 (0-316-16635-9)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heavenby Rick MoodyISBN 0316579297 (0-316-57929-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven'Book summary:A collection includes an investigator who spies on his own wife and the title novella portraying three separate descents into the drug netherworld of 1980s New York. From the acclaimed author of The Ice Storm. 12,500 first printing. Tour. [via]
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