The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
Title | The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Moody |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2015-11-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504027698 |
A spirited collection of stories revealing the extremes of the human experience from the author of The Ice Storm In his first story collection, Rick Moody provides readers with a poignant, brazenly honest glimpse into the lives of a wide array of characters, from a paranoid husband obsessively listening in on his wife’s phone calls to the junkies and sex addicts of New York City’s underworld. Whether they’re grasping for connection or struggling to survive in a dismal and indifferent environment, these individuals’ haunting voices and the evocative worlds they inhabit make for a diverse and powerful volume. Experimenting with form—one story is told as a term paper, another as an annotated bibliography—Moody demonstrates the vast range of his fascinations and talents, as well as his arresting command of language. Candid depictions of contemporary society and the inner-workings of distinctive characters’ minds bring these inquisitive, heartrending, and at times undeniably funny accounts to life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
Title | Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Moody |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Short stories, American |
ISBN |
The Pleasure of Influence
Title | The Pleasure of Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Trucks |
Publisher | Purdue University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781557532534 |
In this collection, 11 important male fiction writers in America in 2001 discuss the origin, process and achievement of their own fiction. Interviewees include Robert Olen Butler, Charles Johnson, Thom Jones, Barry Hannah, Stephen Dixon, Russell Banks, Rick Moody and Chris Offutt.
The Ice Storm
Title | The Ice Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Moody |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2015-11-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504027671 |
The national bestseller and basis for the Ang Lee film is a “powerful” novel of two troubled families during a blizzard in 1970s suburban Connecticut (Newsday). A potentially devastating blizzard approaches New Canaan, Connecticut, while internal forces of desire, frustration, and ennui threaten to tear apart two quintessentially affluent, suburban families. Elena Hood rightfully suspects her husband, Benjamin, is having an affair with neighbor Janey Williams, while Benjamin resents Elena and his mounting feelings of ineptitude. As the snow begins to fall, Benjamin and Elena, as well as Janey and her husband, attend a neighborhood “key party,” where they and other respectable suburbanites agree to go home with whomever’s keys they draw from a bowl. Meanwhile, the Hoods’ and Williams’s teenage children are caught up in their own experimentations with sex and drugs as they test the boundaries of their structured upbringing. With author Rick Moody’s sharp eye for the nuances of suburban life and allusions to 1970s America from Watergate to the Fantastic Four, the novel’s landscape is vivid and immersive. This timeless, unforgettable novel is a compassionate portrayal of flawed characters and reflects Rick Moody’s sharp eye for the contradictions of suburban life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading
Title | Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin R. West |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2019-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1498563724 |
Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading explores how selected American and European literary texts, from the classic to the contemporary, represent reading as a dangerous endeavor. It investigates how the texts being read or the conditions of reading may produce danger and considers the various qualities of the dangers depicted: literal or metaphorical, real or imagined, minor or mortal. Whereas readers can readily imagine being depressed or bored by a book, or even perhaps corrupted in some moral fashion, readers typically assume that the mere words on a page cannot directly affect their health. Nevertheless, literature can and does stage readings in which readers suffer actual harm from the magical or supernatural qualities of a given text. Such impossibly dangerous reading fascinates, the author argues, by exaggerating the dangers that may inhabit certain real experiences of reading.
The Debt to Pleasure
Title | The Debt to Pleasure PDF eBook |
Author | John Lanchester |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2001-12-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312420369 |
A "New York Times" Notable Book, "The Debt to Pleasure" is a wickedly funny ode to food as the novel's snobbish narrator instructs readers in his philosophy on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of the menu.
The Paris Review Book
Title | The Paris Review Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 930 |
Release | 2003-05-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0312422385 |
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the venerable "Paris Review" comes a unique anthology based on the themes of modern life.