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A tour de force, a critical and commercial sensation in the US, and a book that must contend for all the literary prizes — with this book, Rick Moody, in one bound, lands in the very front rank of American writers.
The Great American Novel of its year
The fission of a nuclear family, of a nuclear reactor and of the idea of America
A novel that honours the classical unities — it arcs perfectly across one long, long day in New England — but is thoroughly contemporary in its understanding of the anxieties, paradoxes and desolate dreams of Our Age
Astonishing observational and metaphorical skill
The Holy Trinity of all-American literature, Updike, Bellow and Roth, are now in their twilight years. Here is the first of the next generation to stake a claim on permanence and greatness
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‘Moody is a unique stylist whose beautiful prose weaves helixes of language around the simplest of events... Without that style, Moody’s story might have become mere sentiment. With it, he conjures an altogether rare element of human feeling.’
Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times
‘Powerful and engrossing... Purple America further establishes the author as part of a gifted generation of American writers – writers like David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen – concerned with crises of masculinity and modernity.’
Paul Quinn, TLS
‘This isn’t just a hyped novel – it’s a great one... searing and brilliant.’
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‘A densely stylish novel... Moody is a master craftsman.’
Angus Wolfe Murray, Scotsman
‘Magnificent... Rick Moody is that rare writer who can make the language do tricks and and still suffuse his narrative with soul’
Esquire
‘Piercingly beautiful’
Vanity Fair
Rick Moody lives in Brooklyn. His three previous books are Garden State (not published in the UK), The Ice Storm and The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven. He writes for the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s and the New York Times, among other publications.
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0002257874
- ISBN 13 9780002257879
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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Purple America
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 298 pages. Some waterstaining. Purple America begins in a bat htub and ends in Long Island Sound. In between, Rick Moody's late st novel explores the landscape of a family in crisis. Dexter (He x) Raitliffe, a freelance publicist, returns home to care for his mother, Billie, who is dying by inches of a neurological disease that will rob her of motion, of speech, and finally of thought. Billie's second husband has left her--a fact that Hex is unaware of until he comes home--and her only hope for assisted suicide li es in her son. Unfortunately, Hex is barely able to conduct his o wn life, much less take his mother's. Purple America takes place over the course of a single night; in that night, Hex gives his m other a bath, reconnects with an old love, gets drunk, and goes a fter his stepfather to confront him, with tragic results. As Mood y weaves his tale of this fateful Friday evening, he juxtaposes t hemes of aging, obsolescence, and physical decline with an accide nt at the nuclear power plant where his stepfather works. What li fts this novel above its rather depressing subject matter is Mood y's unsentimental storytelling and the soaring language with whic h he gives his characters voice. Purple America is by turns lyric al, tragic, ferocious, and funny, and Rick Moody is a writer with a brilliant future ahead of him. Seller Inventory # 6l
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Book Description Printed Wrapper. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Frontis., 72 pp., illus. Contains Laurentian: A Typographer's Account" by Andrew Steeves. Seller Inventory # 8496
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