Rick Moody
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born
October 18, 1961
gender
male
place of birth
The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
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.
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The Ice Storm: A Novel by Rick Moody avg rating 3.66 — 1,010 ratings — published 1994 14 editions |
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Demonology: Stories by Rick Moody avg rating 3.49 — 540 ratings — published 2000 9 editions |
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Purple America by Rick Moody avg rating 3.44 — 258 ratings — published 1997 8 editions |
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Garden State by Rick Moody avg rating 3.01 — 278 ratings — published 1992 6 editions |
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The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories by Rick Moody avg rating 3.62 — 207 ratings — published 1337 5 editions |
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The Diviners by Rick Moody avg rating 2.97 — 191 ratings — published 2005 7 editions |
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The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions by Rick Moody avg rating 2.92 — 171 ratings — published 2002 8 editions |
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Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas by Rick Moody avg rating 3.14 — 94 ratings — published 2007 3 editions |
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Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson by Rick Moody avg rating 4.34 — 53 ratings — published 2002 |
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Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited by Rick Moody avg rating 3.00 — 9 ratings — published 1999 |
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"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
— Rick Moody
"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)
— Rick Moody (Demonology: Stories)
