The harrowing and beautiful story of the first year of the author’s second marriage.In a plainspoken, emotionally accessible voice that readers have not heard from him before, Rick Moody, author of Th
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, National PostBEST BOOKS FOR GIFTING 2015: Vanity Fair"This is Moody's best novel in many years...a book of irony and wit and heartbreak." --Dwight Garner,New Yo
Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s,
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 I
The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, dr
In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but t
Rick Moody's novels have earned him a reputation as a "breathtaking" writer (The New York Times) and "a writer of immense gifts" (The San Francisco Examiner). His remarkable short stories have led
The first novel by the acclaimed author of The Ice Storm and Purple America traces a group of friends in Haledon, New Jersey, through one spring in their rocky passage toward adulthood. They are out