· Author Rick Moody evokes this singular setting with stunning clarity. Profoundly tragic yet punctuated by moments of hilarity, Purple America is a searing gaze into one family’s fragile, chaotic heart. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal www.doorway.ru: Open Road Media. · PURPLE AMERICA. by Rick Moody ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, Moody returns to the site of his previous novel (The Ice Storm, ), the Gothic underside of Connecticut's privileged suburbs, and once again finds despair, half-suppressed fears, and a pervasive anger. At the heart of the narrative is Dexter Raitliffe (appropriately, given his ill-starred attempts at life, nicknamed ``Hex''), a Author: Rick Moody. · Purple America marks a new level of accomplishment for Rick Moody, who won the Pushcart Prize and has been regularly cited as among .
Rick Moody () is an American author of novels and short stories best known for his novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two families over one long holiday www.doorway.ru instant bestseller, it was later adapted into a film of the same name. Hotels of North America by Rick Moody - the confessions of an itinerant hotel-reviewer As always with Moody, the prose is the thing, and this book signals a return to the form of Purple. Rick Moody is the author of two memoirs THE LONG ACCOMPLISHMENT and the award-winning THE BLACK VEIL the novels HOTELS OF NORTH AMERICA, THE FOUR FINGERS OF DEATH, THE DIVINERS, PURPLE AMERICA, THE ICE STORM and GARDEN STATE, and multiple collections of short fiction. Moody is the.
PURPLE AMERICA. by Rick Moody ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, Moody returns to the site of his previous novel (The Ice Storm, ), the Gothic underside of Connecticut's privileged suburbs, and once again finds despair, half-suppressed fears, and a pervasive anger. At the heart of the narrative is Dexter Raitliffe (appropriately, given his ill-starred attempts at life, nicknamed ``Hex''), a disaffected boomer summoned home when his despairing stepfather abandons Hex's increasingly ill mother. Purple America has the acid overtones of Hendrix’s “Purple Rain” coupled with the rollicking control of a writer who knows exactly what he’s about. Rick Moody has charted his territory of suburban life with great panache in his previous novels The Ice Storm and Garden State. And like his predecessors Updike and Cheever, Moody understands the need for drugs in these environments, most particularly alcohol, most particularly Hexter Raitliffe’s need. With The Ice Storm and The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, Rick Moody established himself as one of the boldest and most imaginative writers at work today. Now, in Purple America, he delivers the tour-de-force triumph fans have been waiting for -- a masterly novel that recalls the best work of Updike and Roth.
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