Rick Moody
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The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cars and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and Williamses, behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives...in a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.
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These stories are abundant proof of Rick Moody's grace as a stylist and a shaper of interior lives. He writes with equal force about the blithe energies of youth ("Boys") and the rueful onset of middle age ("Hawaiian Night"), about midwestern optimists ("Double Zero") and West Coast strategists ("Baggage Carousel"), about visionary exhilaration ("Forecast from the Retail Desk") and delusional catharsis ("Surplus Value Books: Catalog Number 13"). The...
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From the acclaimed Rick Moody, a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes to life in the most unexpected of ways: through his online reviews.
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...
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...
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This program is read by the author.
Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage—an eventful month-by-month account—in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony.
At this story's start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression, is also the divorced father of a
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Blues and folk singer Karen Dalton was a prominent figure in 1960s New York. Idolized by Bob Dylan and Nick Cave, Karen discarded the traditional trappings of success and led an unconventional life until her early death. Since most images of Karen have been lost or destroyed, the film uses Karen's dulcet melodies and interviews with love ones to build a rich portrait of this singular woman and her hauntingly beautiful voice.
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Criterion collection volume 426
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Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their...