In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less exalted boroughs.
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The Black Veil is not an easy book to read. Moody often circulates obsessively around his topics, and the veil of the book's title acts as a metaphor for Moody's own writing and personal outlook on life. It is "a veiled tale, a shadowed lineage" which is at its best in its early brilliant evocation of a tortured adolescence and brilliant evocation of his relationship with his father, and at its worse when it sinks into portentous discussion of post-structuralist literary theory and psychoanalytic theories of melancholia. The Black Veil will not convince sceptics that Moody is anything other than an angst-ridden master of self-indulgence, but it repays close attention as the work of a difficult but often brilliant chronicler of the modern American mind. –-Jerry Brotton
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this astonishingly inventive book, Moody tells the story of his collapse and recovery in an inspired journey through what it means to be young and confused, older and confused, guilty, lost, and healed. In his early 20s, a lifetime of excess left Rick Moody suddenly stranded in a depression so profound that he feared for his life. A stay in a psychiatric hospital was just the first step out of mental illness. In this astonishingly inventive book, Moody tells the story of his collapse and recovery in an inspired journey through what it means to be young and confused, older and confused, guilty, lost, and healed. Woven through his own story, Moody also traces his family's paternal line, looking for clues to his own melancholy -- in particular to one ancestor, Reverend Joseph Moody, about whom Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote an archetypal story of shame called The Minister's Black Veil. In a brilliant display that is no less than a literary tour de force, Moody ties past and present, family legend, and serious scholarship into a book that will draw comparisons not just to recent memoirs by Dave Eggers and Martin Amis but to forebears like Nabokov's Speak, Memory. In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less exalted boroughs. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780316739016