Most Popular Books by Rick Moody

Becky Wright is a typical teenager who has boy problems. She does not have a date for the Christmas dance. All she needs is a little bit of advice from someone older and wiser - a Reliable Source. Surely her older sister Angela is a Reliable Source . After all, Angela writes pornographic novels, so she must know all there is to know about boys and dating There is only one problem with Becky''s plan. Her parents have forbidden her seeing Angela, whom they believe is a corrupting influence. But Becky is a determined and resourceful young lady. She finally finds a way to meet her sister, but in doing so, she learns that Angela has more than dating wisdom to impart. Angela is privy to the skeletons in the family closet. The advice that Angela can give Becky will either get her into more trouble with her parents...or save her from harm. Will Becky get the help from her sister in time or is it already too late?

Bello e dannato come gli eroi dei suoi romanzi, Rick Moody racconta in questa autobiografia la caduta nell’abisso delle droghe e dell’alcool, gli anni più difficili della sua vita e la storia di una famiglia che affonda le proprie radici nella nascita degli Stati Uniti d’America. Lo scrittore newyorkese intreccia i ricordi della propria vita alla ricostruzione del passato familiare, a cominciare dal suo antenato che, per aver provocato involontariamente la morte di un amico, passò il resto della vita con il volto coperto da un velo. “ Moody depista il lettore, schiva le spiegazioni più immediate, riducendole a disordine e ambiguità.” Alex Clark, The Guardian “ Il velo nero è uno straordinario libro sulla natura umana, vista attraverso la lente deformante di una condizione che ha la forza di piegarla e negarla: la malinconia.” Edoardo Nesi

Haledon, sobborgo in rovina del New Jersey, fa da sfondo alle vite irrequiete di un gruppo di giovani ai margini. Alice, ex chitarrista e disoccupata; Max, che vive di spaccio; Dennis, pittore dilettante e idraulico; Nails, guardiano notturno; e Lane, malinconico irrimediabile alla ricerca di se stesso, condividono una quotidianità segnata da precarietà e disincanto. Tra alcol e droga, cliniche di recupero, rapporti effimeri e pensieri autodistruttivi, i ragazzi cercano un modo per sfuggire alla deriva. L’idea di mettere in piedi una rock band diventa allora un fragile tentativo di riscatto, un modo per immaginare, almeno per un istante, una vita diversa. Rumoroso e vitale come un disco live, Cercasi batterista, chiamare Alice è un romanzo ironico e sincero sull’amicizia e su quel momento della vita, tra sale prove malmesse, locali fumosi e sogni in affitto, in cui si fa i conti con ciò che non si è diventati.

On New Years Day of 2010, the American video artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) began a year-long performance in which she cried once every day. She documented these crying sessions in 365 photographs that record a ritualized intent to "deliberately take part in sadness each day." Drawing out the biological symptoms of human vulnerability with extraordinary persistence, with this project Nakadate updated the endurance strategies of 1970s conceptual and performance art (Marina Abramovic, Bas Jan Ader) for a new generation with a new relationship to the camera lens. As with the work of her predecessors, Nakadate''s self-portraits of willed sadness arouse a range of conflicting emotions in the viewer, from embarrassment to compassion. 365 Days, A Catalogue of Tears reproduces the full set of photographs and examines their negotiation of intimacy, self-reflection, portraiture and the artist''s relationship with her audience.

Montese Crandall, a down-on-his-luck writer with a wife who is gravely ill, pens a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror movie, wherein an animated dismembered arm, missing its middle finger, is the only remanent that returns to Earth from a mission to Mars. By the author of The Ice Storm.

En racontant sa propre existence, on croise inévitablement des fantômes... Pour Rick Moody, c''est un ancêtre pasteur à l''étrange destinée : Joseph Moody qui, après avoir commis un meurtre, a décidé de cacher son visage sous un voile noir. La figure symbolique de l''aïeul devient le centre de gravité d''un récit qui lève le voile sur les démons de l''Amérique. Un texte brillant, qui manie les genres avec une virtuosité implacable.

The first novel by the acclaimed author of The Ice Storm and Purple America traces a group of friends in Haledon, New Jersey, through one spring in their rocky passage toward adulthood. They are out of school, trying to start a band, trying to find work - looking for something to do in the degraded terrain of their suburban hometown. Garden State captures the lyricism of stark lives in an intense and unforgettable story of friendship and betrayal. With a new preface by the author.

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 Rick Moody and an afterword by Darcey Steinke, Joyful Noise includes contributions from: Madison Smartt Bell -- April Bernard -- Catherine Bowman -- Joseph Caldwell -- Benjamin Cheever -- Lydia Davis -- Jeffrey Eugenides -- Eurydice -- Coco Fusco -- Lucy Grealy -- Barry Hannah -- bell hooks -- Jim Lewis -- Ann Patchett -- Ann Powers -- Joanna Scott -- Lisa Shea -- Stephen Westfall -- Kim Wozencraft Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

1972. Une banlieue résidentielle dans l''Est des Etats-Unis. Benjamin Hood et Janey Williams se préparent, une fois de plus, à tromper leurs conjoints respectifs. Janey sort de la chambre d''amis, entre dans la salle de bains. Pendant ce temps, à l''étage au-dessus, leurs enfants s''apprêtent à vivre leur première expérience sexuelle. Tout va bien. II suffira pourtant de quelques jours pour que cette paisible communauté suburbaine se retrouve sens dessus - dessous, dévastée par l''irruption simultanée de l''échangisme et d''une tempête d''une force inouïe. Désormais, plus rien ne sera comme avant. Tempête de glace est d''abord une comédie, étincelante comme le givre qui enrobe les paysages du New Jersey, les nimbant d''un éclat féerique, tandis que les images du Watergate défilent à la télévision. Avec, en fond sonore, les premières chansons de Lou Reed et des New York Dolls. Mais c''est aussi une réflexion sur la fin d''une certaine Amérique, et un drame poignant. Au-delà de la reconstitution virtuose des années 70, ce roman implacable met en lumière l''irresponsabilité d''une génération et ses effets sur la génération suivante. Adapté au cinéma par Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, 1998), Tempête de glace est le deuxième roman de Rick Moody. Son dernier livre, The Black Veil, paraîtra à l''Olivier en 2004.