Summary
Nixon and ‘Nam, pet rocks and shag rugs, wife-swapping and party-hopping. Suburban New England, 1973, and the Hood family are about to wish they’d stayed home. Astutely acerbic, painfully funny, THE ICE STORM is an astonishing novel of the decade that taste forgot.
1973 - ‘The last year of the sixties’ as the author describes it. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years the local families gather for a party - the highlight of which is the wife-swapping ‘key game’ - and for two couples this…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349110301 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349110301 |
| Author: | Rick Moody |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 1998 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 200mm x 20mm |
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With intelligence, restraint, and without sentimentality, Rick Moody has created a moving portrait of a nuclear family meltdown. A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book
THE ICE STORM is one of the wittiest books about family life ever written - THE GUARDIAN
A huge ‘70s nostalgia trip, a litany of kitsch, a mountain of memorabilia as the backdrop to a bitter-sweet story of suburban America. - TIME OUTWith intelligence, restraint, and without sentimentality, Rick Moody has created a moving portrait of a nuclear family meltdown. A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book - Jeffrey Eugenides author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDESA blackly funny and beautifully written novel. - SUNDAY TIMESAbout The Author
Rick Moody
Rick Moody was born in New York City and attended Brown and Columbia Universities. His first novel, GARDEN STATE, was published in 1992. He has also published short fiction and essays in many US journals such as STORM and THE PARIS REVIEW.
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