NONFICTION
Released: March 21, 2012
"Thoughtful, heartfelt and frequently moving, like the best music."
FICTION
Released: July 28, 2010
"A smart, fun satire--Jonathan Swift in space, with twists befitting Vincent Price."
A rollicking romp through deep space and Arizona alike, improbable and thoroughly entertaining, courtesy of master storyteller Moody (
Right Livelihoods, 2007, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 6, 2007
"Paranoia raised to the level of art."
Moody (
The Diviners, 2005, etc.) exploits the nightmarish liminal space between humor and madness, dream and reality.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 12, 2005
"A novel that might well have been more fun to write than it is to read."
A serious-minded novelist offers a sprawling satire of show business, with results that fall short of divine.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 6, 2002
"Where he got the focus to write through all this is a wonder, though he sure had plenty of material on death, defeat, and dehumanization to work with."
Novelist Moody (
Demonology, 2000, etc.) reveals an inspired but not pretty picture of his life.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 25, 2000
"An infuriatingly uneven second collection (after The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, 1995) whose chaotic feel and flow prove both seductive and alienating. Moody marches on, to the beat of a drummer so different many readers may be unable to hear it at all."
Bizarre content and rhetorical overkill are the salient features of this oddball gathering of 13 short fictions (some aren't precisely
stories), by the young author of
Purple America (1997) and
The Ice Storm (1994), among others.
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