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El velo negro constituye un emotivo relato de Rick Moody sobre el episodio más duro de su vida...El velo negro constituye un emotivo relato de Rick Moody sobre el episodio más duro de su vida, la experiencia de lo que sucede cuando los pilares de una vida se desmoronan. En este sentido, El velo negro es la perfecta cristalización de todas sus ficciones anteriores -la familia disfuncional, el cuadro de época, el horror vacui del ser joven en un...

Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it, hipsters scoff at it. Yes Is The Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters, the first literary anthology devoted to the sub genre. Featuring acclaimed novelists, Rick Moody, Wesley Stace, Seth Greenland, Charles Bock, and Joe Meno, as well as musicians Nathan Larson, and Peter Case, Yes Is The Answer is the first book that dares to thoughtfully reclaim prog-rock as a subject ...

enthält "Personal Effects", "Serious Moonlight" sowie "Tränen des Glücks

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, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat. "On Celestial Music, " which was included in Best American Essays, 2008, begins with a lament for the loss in recent music of the vulnerability expressed by Otis Red...

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From the author of "The Ice Storm" comes the story of one weekend in the life of a New York publicist--a young man with a stutter, a terminally ill mother, and a drinking problem--who is summoned home to suburban Connecticut, only to find himself confronted by obstacles of comically epic proportions.

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 to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less exalted boroughs.

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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, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused e...

Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just details of hotels around the globe--they tell his life story.The puzzle of Reginald's life comes together through reviews that comment upon his motivational speaking career, the dissolution of his marriage, the separation from his daughter, and his devotion to an amour known only as "K." But when Reginald disappears, we are le...

Da uno degli autori americani più brillanti e controversi della sua generazione, tre novelle sull'identità, lo smarrimento, la paranoia, sulla difficoltà di trovare una stabilità emotiva ed esistenziale nel mondo sempre più lacerato di oggi. Un ricco pensionato vaga confuso fra i campi da golf e le lussuose residenze di una località di villeggiatura, convinto dell'imminenza dell'attacco di un temibile e misterioso nemico esterno, l'impiegata d...

With savvy and structural mastery not unlike Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen, Moody has penned a hilarious and generous novel about ambition, folly, and the tyranny of buzz.

Il falò della vanità americana. Fra la seduzione delle telecamere e le tentazioni del sovrannaturale. Uno spaccato dell'America, con le sue follie e le sue grandezze, un viaggio nel cinismo del Sistema, condotto da un autore ormai di culto. Protagonista del romanzo è Vanessa Meandro, una giovane produttrice cinematografica di New York con una smodata propensione per il cibo, che la rende obesa, e una madre ingombrante, possessiva e appassionat...

Twilight: in that zone between the certainty of day and fear of the dark, Gregory Crewdson sets his eerie, enigmatic photographs. A woman floats in her flooded living room, a cow appears to have fallen from the sky onto a front lawn, a gang of teenagers, seemingly hypnotized, pile up household objects for a bonfire. Created as elaborately staged tableaux, this series of images suggests the bizarre yet beautiful surrealities behind deceptively ...

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.

Now in paperback, the exuberantly praised collection of short fiction--featured on the cover of "The New York Times Book Review"--that established Rick Moody as one of the leading literary voices of his generation.

Paperback is the ideal format for this acclaimed anthology in which twenty-one prominent American writers -- all of whom came of age in the baby boom and Generation X years -- look at the New Testament with a fresh eye toward its meaning for them, and for us, today. These thought-provoking essays will reassure, excite, and inspire anyone who has felt the need to approach spirituality in a personal or unorthodox way. With an introduction by Ric...

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.