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Moody has since received the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Conjunctions, Harper's, Details, The New York Times, and Grand Street .
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 ...
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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
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Rick Moody has 149 books on Goodreads with 72677 ratings. Rick Moody’s most popular book is The Ice Storm.
Jan 1, 1994 · 3.65. 5,935 ratings464 reviews. The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, come face-to-face with the seething ...
Rick Moody is a contemporary American novelist and short story writer known for his stylistic innovation and exploration of suburban themes. In this interview, he discusses his influences, his use of lists, his relationship to Cheever and Elkin, and his views on writing and reading.
Terry Gross Interviews Rick Moody (1997) ILL GOLDSTEIN: And so I was wondering whether you could just talk about your relationship with books and your love of books. RICK MOODY: Well, that's really . . . that's sort of the origin of my job, really, is reading. You know, before I ever wrote, I was a voracious reader, and that's really something ...
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