Demonology : StoriesMoody, Rick
9780316579254
Purple America: A Novel
Rick Moody
ISBN 10: 0316579254 / 0-316-57925-4
ISBN 13: 9780316579254
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780316579254
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
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Purple America brings us a family in extremis: a son is summoned home to care for his mother, who has long been sick, after she is abandoned by her husband. Over the course of a single weekend night, the son, Hex Raitliffe, sees his good intentions annihilated by a phalanx of opposing forces - not least of them his own predilection for strong drink. Hex confronts his stepfather, stirs up the heat of an old attraction, and tries to accommodate his mother's demands. What begins as a mission of mercy leads, one fatal step after another, to confusion, debauchery, old wounds reopened, and the stinging revelations that only a visit home can bring. The story arrives in the voices of Hex, his mother, his stepfather, and others whose paths they cross this night. Through their thoughts and their memories we see also, amazingly, a portrait of the family in its heyday: the joy of new love, the innocence of young families, and the optimism that brings people together with the idea of creating something new. Even as Hex reels through the catastrophic present, amid tears and confrontations and the shadow of death, the novel shows with great tenderness the beauty of everyday longings for shelter, for company, for family, for peace.
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"The language has a jazzy punch and freshness, flawlessly catching the ebb and flow of thought...to illuminate the quiet terrors of suburban life."
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Review:"When you're not holding your sides laughing..., you'll be wailing with hysteria at the not-so-paranoid notion pervading the subtext of this book....It's not only the apocalyptic references that add a mythical element to this very modern narrative, but the inherent relationships in the nuclear family that make this book so compelling."
Betsy Sussler, Bomb, Spring 1997
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Book Description: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1997. Hard Cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. In this tour-de-force literary triumph, the bestselling author of The Ice Storm offers a masterly novel in the tradition of Updike and Roth. Over the course of a single incendiary night, a young man, his mother, and his stepfather discover the profound connections between the forces that bind both family and the society in which familial love is played out. Bookseller Inventory # 002364 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Little Brown & Co, Boston, MA, 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston, MA, Little Brown, 1997. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Paperback with a pictorial cover, 298 pp. The rich weave of this book encompasses the suburbs and the city, growing up and growing old, vanity and humility, ambition and surrender. Illuminated by a fierce intelligence and animated by rhapsodic prose, this is an original and unforgettable work from a writer with dazzling strength. Very slight shelf wear on rear cover. New. Bookseller Inventory # EM-B0312-05 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Little Brown & Co, Boston, MA, 1997. Quarter Cloth. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston, MA, Little Brown, 1997. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over purple boards, with copper-colored lettering embossed on spine, two-color title page (purple and black), 298 pp. The rich weave of this book encompasses the suburbs and the city, growing up and growing old, vanity and humility, ambition and surrender. Illuminated by a fierce intelligence and animated by rhapsodic prose, this is an original and unforgettable work from a writer with dazzling strengths. Dust jacket has very minor shelf wear on back and a repaired ¾" flat tear on rear wrap-around flap, hardly noticeable under mylar cover. New in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover. Bookseller Inventory # EM-B0312-04 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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