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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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 1997
"In its narrow purview, this New Testament revisited is considerably less juicy than the original."
A bid to shed fresh light on the New Testament, weighed down by a disappointingly predictable party line: Jesus-as-radical-moral-teacher.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1997
Moody returns to the site of his previous novel (The Ice Storm, 1994), the Gothic underside of Connecticut's privileged suburbs, and once again finds despair, half-suppressed fears, and a pervasive anger.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 23, 1995
"Pointless, unfocused, and needlessly sordid overall."
A debut collection from rising star Moody (The Ice Storm, 1994; Garden State, 1992), who, here, throws together a wild, perverse, and ultimately flat mosaic of contemporary life.
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FICTION
Released: May 4, 1994
"Too cold."
FICTION
Released: April 20, 1992
Anomie is raised to the level of a deadly virus in this first novel (winner of Pushcart's Tenth Annual Editors' Book Award) about wasted youth in suburban New Jersey. ``All over Haledon, kids were coming apart.'' Kids like punk- rocker Alice, 23 years old, unemployed, and less motivated than ever now that her band has broken up; kids like Lane, who has tried every drug on the menu and is debating when to kill himself, now or later.
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