Rick Moody Libri

Vanessa Meandro, di Brooklyn, è una donna ancora giovane, con problemi di obesità, piccoli sogni di gloria nel cassetto e un albero genealogico che si collega a un'antica stirpe di rabdomanti. Coraggiosa produttrice di film indipendenti vorrebbe aprire al grande pubblico una miniserie televisiva. Sfortuna vuole che Annabel, la sua assistente, abbia appena smarrito la sceneggiatura in questione, e sia costretta a inventarne una per evitare le rappresaglie della sua capa. Un flusso inesauribile di eventi e situazioni grottesche, paradossali ed esilaranti, è il filo conduttore di questa satira di costume, disperata ma al tempo stesso felice di esserlo, e quindi carica di autoironia. Fondendo il giallo più teso e l'affresco divertito e picaresco del sottobosco mediatico dell'America di oggi, Rick Moody dà vita a un caleidoscopio vertiginoso di personaggi ed episodi indimenticabili, per offrirci l'ultimo capolavoro della grande tradizione narrativa americana.

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 emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives - in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.

Bello e dannato come gli eroi dei suoi romanzi, Rick Moody racconta in questa sconvolgente 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 fondazione degli Stati Uniti d'America. Lo scrittore newyorkese intreccia i ricordi della propria vita alla ricostruzione del passato della sua famiglia, 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 (vicenda dalla quale trasse spunto Hawthorne per il celebre racconto "Il velo nero del pastore", cui si riferisce il titolo).

This book serves as a companion to three concurrent gallery exhibitions of Gregory Crewdson's photography in Spring 2002, showcasing his unique visual storytelling. It features a collection of his striking images that blend cinematic elements with surreal narratives, exploring themes of suburban life and human emotion. The exhibitions are held at prominent galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and London, highlighting Crewdson's influential work and its impact on contemporary art.

A collection of stories that tell of loneliness. They include The Preliminary Notes, The Apocalypse of Bob Paisner, and Primary Sources. The title piece was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Best Fiction published in the Paris Review during 1994. The author has also written The Ice Storm.

The Alternative Guide to the Universe surveys work that creates unexpected possibilities in art, science and architecture; possibilities so profound that they suggest an alternate reality. This densely illustrated volume features self-taught architects and artists, photographers and futurists, outsider engineers and scientists--all investigating larger systems of knowledge or developing particular disciplines in idiosyncratic directions. Among the visionaries included here are A.G. Rizzoli, Alfred Jensen, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Emery Blagdon, Eugene von Bruenchenheim, George Widener, Guo Fengyi, James Carter, Jean Perdrizet, Lee Godie, Marcel Storr, Melvin Way, Morton Bartlett, Paul Laffoley, Philip Blackmarr, Rammellzee, Richard Greaves, William Scott and Wu Yulu.

Established in 1918 as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual literary tradition has presented a remarkable offering of stories over its seventy-seven-year history. O. Henry first-prize winners have included Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, John Cheever, John Updike, and Cynthia Ozick, as well as some lesser-known writers such as Alison Baker and Cornelia Nixon. Many talented writers who were unknown when first chosen for an O. Henry Award later went on to become seminal voices of contemporary American fiction. Representative of the very best in contemporary American fiction, these are varied, full-bodied fictional creations brimming with life--proof of the continuing strength and variety of the American short story.

Having fled his less than perfect home life years ago, Hal Raitcliffe returns to help his ailing mother after his stepfather walks out on her, but over the course of one weekend, Hal's good intentions wear thin as the family airs its grievances. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Rick Moody's DISCREET MUSIC showcases his long-standing relationship with music, exploring themes from the evolution of the word "cool" to his reflections on artists like Otis Redding and the Velvet Underground. The collection includes insights on modern groups like Wilco and The Pogues, encouraging readers to delve deeper into music's richness.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, National Post BEST BOOKS FOR GIFTING 2015: Vanity Fair GIFT YOURSELF THIS PAPERBACK -- Seattle Times "This is Moody's best novel in many years...a book of irony and wit and heartbreak." --Dwight Garner, New York Times 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 dissolution of his marriage, the separation from his beloved daughter, and his devotion to an amour known only as "K." But when Reginald disappears, we are left with the fragments of a life--or at least the life he has carefully constructed--which writer Rick Moody must make sense of. An inventive blurring of the lines between the real and the fabricated, Hotels of North America demonstrates Moody's mastery ability to push the bounds of the novel.