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NONFICTION

Released: Nov. 1, 1997

JOYFUL NOISE: THE NEW TESTAMENT REVISITED

edited by Rick Moody, Darcey Steinke

"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. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: April 1, 1997

PURPLE AMERICA

by Rick Moody

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. Read full book review >

Cover art for THE RING OF BRIGHTEST ANGELS AROUND HEAVEN

FICTION

Released: Aug. 23, 1995

THE RING OF BRIGHTEST ANGELS AROUND HEAVEN

by Rick Moody

"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. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: May 4, 1994

THE ICE STORM

by Rick Moody

"Too cold."

In 1973, a decaying suburban Connecticut family has a bad day. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: April 20, 1992

GARDEN STATE

by Rick Moody

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. Read full book review >

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