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The diviners : a novel
by Rick Moody
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19 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and French and held by 1,262 libraries worldwide A proposed television miniseries becomes the focus of a brutal rivalry between a hot-tempered production head, a Sikh cab driver, a bipolar bicycle messenger, and other industry wannabes.
Purple America : a novel
by Rick Moody
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28 editions published between 1997 and 2003 in 9 languages and held by 1,254 libraries worldwide A son returns home to look after his mother, abandoned by his stepfather. The novel follows him as he handles the chores, gets drunk and has a romance on the side. The mother, in a wheel chair and incontinent, extracts a promise that he will kill her if she gets worse. In the background hovers the stepfather, unable to decide whether to return. The setting is a wealthy suburb in Connecticut. By the author of The Ice Storm.
The ice storm
by Rick Moody
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29 editions published between 1994 and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 909 libraries worldwide The familiar suburban landscape of Updike, Cheever, and Irving gets dazzlingly reinvented in this audacious and funny novel. It's the weekend after Thanksgiving 1973 in the suburbs. American troops are leaving Vietnam. The Beatles are recording solo albums. Pet Rocks are on the drawing board. And the Hoods are skidding out of control.
Demonology : stories
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11 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and Portuguese and held by 852 libraries worldwide These stories are abundant proof of Rick Moody's grace as a stylist and a shaper of interior lives. He writes with equal force about the blithe energies of youth ("Boys") and the rueful onset of middle age ("Hawaiian Night"), about midwestern optimists ("Double Zero") and West Coast strategists ("Baggage Carousel"), about visionary exhilaration ("Forecast from the Retail Desk") and delusional catharsis ("Surplus Value Books: Catalog Number 13"). The astounding title story, which has already been reprinted in four different anthologies, is a masterpiece of remembrance and thwarted love.
The black veil : a memoir with digressions
by Rick Moody
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9 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 835 libraries worldwide The author weaves together past and present and family legend as he shares his personal story of dealing with depression, and his search through his family's paternal lines to find clues to his melancholy.
The four fingers of death : a novel
by Rick Moody
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5 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 770 libraries worldwide Montese Crandall, a down-on-his-luck writer with a wife who is gravely ill, pens a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror movie, wherein an animated dismembered arm, missing its middle finger, is the only remnant that returns to Earth from a mission to Mars.
Right livelihoods : three novellas
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6 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 689 libraries worldwide Presents three novellas, including "K&K," about an office manager who receives frightening notes in a suggestion box, and "The Albertine Notes," in which a mind-altering drug dominates life in post-apocalypse New York City.
Garden State : a novel
by Rick Moody
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16 editions published between 1992 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 638 libraries worldwide "Traces a group of friends in Haledon, New Jersey, through one spring in their rocky passage toward adulthood. They are out of school, trying to start a band, trying to find work, looking for something to do in the degraded terrain of their suburban hometown." -- Back cover.
The ring of brightest angels around Heaven : a novella and stories
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8 editions published between 1995 and 2002 in English and held by 401 libraries worldwide A novella follows three people's descent into depravity in the drug netherworld of 1980s New York. The additional 10 stories include Primary Sources, an autobiography written in the form of bibliographic footnotes, and The Grid, reflections on a first kiss.
Joyful noise : the New Testament revisited
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1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 302 libraries worldwide
The mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
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4 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 242 libraries worldwide The mayor of Casterbridge is haunted by his past when, as an unemployed farmhand, he sold his wife and daughter while in a drunken stupor.
Roy Lichtenstein : Times Square Mural : a catalogue published on the occasion of the unveiling of the Times Square Mural and the exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, September 5-October 19, 2002
by Roy Lichtenstein
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 233 libraries worldwide "This exhibition includes the initial color collage plus the full scale black-and-white maquette of the mural with additional drawings, sketch and source books, comic books and other of Roy's paintings, sculptures and drawings dating from the early 1960s to the 1990s"--P. 17.
Fred Tomaselli : ten year survey
by Fred Tomaselli
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3 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 165 libraries worldwide
Hover
by Gregory Crewdson
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2 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 148 libraries worldwide
The changeling
by Joy Williams
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1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 94 libraries worldwide
The black veil
by Rick Moody
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14 editions published between 2002 and 2004 in English and Spanish and held by 91 libraries worldwide
The ring of brightest angels around heaven
by Rick Moody
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5 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in English and held by 82 libraries worldwide A novella follows three people's descent into depravity in the drug netherworld of 1980s New York. The additional 10 stories include Primary Sources, an autobiography written in the form of bibliographic footnotes, and The Grid, reflections on a first kiss.
The Omega force : three novellas
by Rick Moody
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3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 75 libraries worldwide Noveller.
Demonology
by Rick Moody
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4 editions published between 2000 and 2004 in French and English and held by 73 libraries worldwide Douze nouvelles drôles, déjantées, décalées ou bouleversantes qui font de Rick Moody l'une des voies les plus originales de la littérature américaine d'aujourd'hui.
The best American short stories, 2001 [selected stories
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2 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide An audio sampling of the premier annual showcase of the country's finest short fiction. more
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