Rick Moody





Rick Moody

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October 18, 1961

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Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18, 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, and became a bestseller; it was later made into a feature film.



Average rating: 3.57 · 12,546 ratings · 1,185 reviews · 59 distinct works · Similar authors
The Ice Storm
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 2,539 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions
Demonology: Stories
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 1,075 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
Purple America
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions
Garden State
3.03 of 5 stars 3.03 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
The Four Fingers of Death
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 435 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
The Ring of Brightest Angel...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
The Diviners
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions
The Wilco Book
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2004
Black Veil: A Memoir with D...
3.04 of 5 stars 3.04 avg rating — 341 ratings4 editions
Right Livelihoods: Three No...
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions
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“Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love? ”
Rick Moody, Demonology: Stories

“Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.”
Rick Moody

“The past was so past it hurt.”
Rick Moody, The Ice Storm

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