Rick Moody

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October 18, 1961 in The United States

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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.

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Average rating: 3.55 · 9538 ratings · 1010 reviews · 55 distinct works

	The Ice Storm 366 avg rating — 1904 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Demonology: Stories 347 avg rating — 904 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Purple America 348 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Garden State 305 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories 364 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Four Fingers of Death 333 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Diviners 295 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Wilco Book by Rick Moody, Dan Nadel 362 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions 305 avg rating — 287 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas 315 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	My rating:

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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

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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

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

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Audiobooks: End of the World themes - help?	11	36	02. Januar, 07:25 Uhr
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Around the World ...: New Jersey	5	23	18. April, 09:49 Uhr

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