Rick Moody - Demonology
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- Название:Demonology
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- Год:2002
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Demonology: краткое содержание, описание и аннотация
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the second short story collection by Rick Moody, the author of the acclaimed novels The Ice StormPurple America. In this brilliant, satirical collection framed by the deaths of two sisters, Moody uses his acerbic wit and perceptive eye to address our futile attempts to find meaning and catharsis in our suffering.
Moody's stories navigate long, winding roads over which the author capably propels his readers toward certain intended epiphanies. In "The Carnival Tradition," he plays with the chronology of two aspiring bohemians in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1985, then brings them back to when they met as teenagers ten years earlier on Halloween. What begins as a send-up of scrambling and pretentious artists evolves into a comedy of manners about rich and awkward adolescents, finally becoming a devastating meditation on the loss of love and the death of youthful dreams. The story's maimed protagonist is left alone and isolated.
Moody further displays his penchant for breaking short story conventions when he uses a newly discovered cassette collection to tell of the downward spiral of an upper-class ne'er-do-well. In "Wilkie Fahnstock: The Boxed Set," notes on the cassette tapes record the rock hits through the 1970s and '80s, as well as the young scion's inability to hold down jobs, stay out of drug rehab, stay in graduate programs, or to develop a meaningful life.
In "Surplus Value Books, Catalogue #13," Moody re-creates the book list of a mentally ill man selling his library. Each title he is selling refers in some way to his obsession with a female graduate student he will never kiss. As the list goes on, the increasing book values and outrageous liner notes become a vehicle for expression of the madman's hysteria.
In the title story, which ends the collection, Moody weaves a compelling ode to a sister who dies suddenly. With the orange flames of Halloween licking the edges of the story, Moody chronicles the sister's difficult but not entirely meaningless life while she takes her kids trick-or-treating. The grief of the narrator is unflinching.
Moody is on firmest ground in
when he takes apart life in suburban America and examines the pieces with his biting humor. His mockeries of social conventions illuminate the raw human feelings of hurt and loneliness in his characters.
proves once again that Moody is a master storyteller who weaves elaborate tales, bringing readers right where the writer wants us: looking into a mirror that reflects our naked emotions.
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14. Edwin Starr, “War”(1972).
15. Dobie Gray, “Fade Away”(1972).
16. Ohio Players, “Fire”(1972).
17. The Allman Brothers Band, “Ramblin Man”(1972).
18. James Taylor, “Fire and Rain”(1971).
19. Looking Glass, “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)”(1972).
20. The Brady Bunch Kids, “Candy”(1972).
Cassette Two
(A)
“Danny Berry’s dad accidentally killed someone mountain climbing — roped snapped and the guy sailed into a gorge. Danny liked really dark stuff. He turned me on to Pink Floyd. I remember reading the lyrics to ’Brain Damage and thinking it was really scary.“
l. Gary Glitter, “Rock ’n Roll”(1972).
2. Deep Purple, “Smoke on the Water”(1971).
3. Led Zeppelin, “Black Dog”(1971).
4. Focus, “Hocus Pocus”(1972).
5. Traffic, “John Barleycorn Must Die”(1973).
6. Yes, “Roundabout”(1972).
7. Edgar Winter Group, “Frankenstein”(1973).
8. Elton John, “Philadelphia Freedom”(1973).
9. Alice Cooper, “School’s Out”(1972).
(B)
10. Jethro Tull, “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day”(1974).
11. Emerson, Lake and Palmer, “Hoedown”(1973).
12. Pink Floyd, “Money”(1972).
13. Hot Butter, “Popcorn”(1973).
14. Genesis, “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”(1973).
15. Mike Oldfield, “Tubular Bells”(1973).
16. The Who, “Baba O’Riley”(1971).
17. Electric Light Orchestra, “Roll Over Beethoven”(1972).
18. Moody Blues, “Legend of a Mind”(1968).
Cassette Three
(A)
“Had to hide my Kiss albums from my roommate in freshman year. But now I’m proud of them. These days, Kiss records sound really cool.“
1. The Tubes, “White Punks on Dope”(1975).
2. Kiss, “Rock ’n Roll All Nite”(1974).
3. Lou Reed, “Sweet Jane”(1973).
4. Roxy Music, “Re-Make, Re-Model”(1972).
5. David Bowie, “Rebel, Rebel”(1973).
6. Queen, “We Will Rock You”and “We Are the Champions”(1976).
7. Ian Hunter, “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”(1976).
8. Sweet, “Fox on the Run”(1976).
9. The Who, “Squeeze Box”(1976).
(B)
“When I got older I started to learn to play Frisbee and hackey sack.“
10. Bruce Springsteen, “Rosalita”(1973).
11. Grateful Dead, “Truckin’”(1972).
12. Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”(1975).
13. Neil Young, “Cortez the Killer”(1975).
14. Joni Mitchell, “For Free”(1972).
15. Fleetwood Mac, “Go Your Own Way”(1975).
16. KC and the Sunshine Band, “Get Down Tonight”(1975).
17. Daryl Hall and John Oates, “She’s Gone”(1977).
18. The Eagles, “Hotel California”(1976).
Cassette Four
(A)
“I knew this guy, Mike Frew — he went on to become a big lawyer for Greenpeace — used to wear dog collars and listen to the Stranglers. He broke in punk rock big for my school Single-handedly. He had these dances featuring the Bee Gees and the Pistols albums.“
1. Peter Gabriel, “Solsbury Hill”(1976).
2. Iggy Pop, “Passenger”(1977).
3. Elvis Costello, “Radio, Radio”(1978).
4. Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the U.K.”(1977).
5. Devo, “Satisfaction”(1978).
6. Stranglers, “Hanging Around”(1977).
7. Blondie, “Hanging on the Telephone”(1977).
8. The Police, “Walking on the Moon”(1979).
9. The Clash, “Safe European Home”(1978).
10. Sid Vicious, “My Way”(1979).
11. The Dickies, “Tra La La (The Banana Splits Theme Song)”(1979).
12. The Vapors, “Turning Japanese”(1980).
13. Plastique Bertrand, “Ca Plane Pour Moi”(1979).
(B)
14. Patti Smith, “Horses”(1976).
15. The Dead Boys, “Sonic Reducer”(1977).
16. Bee Gees, “Stayin’ Alive”(1976).
17. Television, “Marquee Moon”(1977).
18. Richard Hell and the Voidoids, “Blank Generation”(1978).
19. Talking Heads, “Warning Sign”(1978).
20. B-52’s “52 Girls”(1980).
21. Ramones, “Rock and Roll Radio”(1979).
22. Sex Pistols, “God Save the Queen”(1978).
Cassette Five
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1. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, “Enola Gay”(1979).
2. Peter Gabriel, “Games Without Frontiers”(1979).
3. The Cure, “Boys Don’t Cry”(1980).
4. Patti Smith, “Rock and Roll Nigger”(1979).
5. Modern Lovers, “Road Runner”(1972).
6. M, “Pop Music”(1979).
7. Human Sexual Response, “What Does Sex Mean to Me?”(1980).
8. Klark Kent, “On My Own”(1980).
9. Pretenders, “2000 Miles”(1983).
10. dB’S “I Thought You Wanted to Know”(1979).
11. Rockpile, “Teacher, Teacher”(1982).
(B)
“I spent most of college drinking beer at the campus bar and buying clothes from that nice girl at the used clothing store in Newport. ”
12. Funkadelic, “Hardcore Jollies”(1978).
13. Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime”(1980).
14. Brian Eno, “Kurt’s Rejoinder”(1976).
15. Gang of Four, “Outside the Trains Don’t Run on Time”(1981).
16. Public Image Limited, “Pop-tones”(1981).
17. Pere Ubu, “Dub Housing”(1979).
18. Blondie, “Rapture”(1982).
19. The English Beat, “Ranking Full Stop”(1979).
20. ABC, “The Look of Love”(1982).
21. R.E.M., “Sitting Still”(1983).
Cassette Six
(A)
l. The Replacements, “Unsatisfied”(1984).
2. Hüsker Dü, “Celebrated Summer”(1984).
3. Minutemen, “History of the World, Part II”and “This Ain’t No Picnic”(1985).
4. Cocteau Twins, “Lorelei”(1985).
5. Dead Kennedys, “California UberAlles”(1980).
6. Violent Femmes, “Good Feeling”(1984).
7. Black Flag, “Slip It In”(1984).
8. James “Blood”Ulmer, “Are You Happy in America?”(1982).
9. Laurie Anderson, “O Superman”(1982).
10. The Smiths, “What Difference Does It Make?”(1984).
(B)
11. The Beastie Boys, “Cookie Puss”(1982).
12. Run-DMC, “RockBox”(1983).
13. New Order, “Bizarre Love Triangle”(1984).
14. Echo and the Bunnymen, “Never Stop”(1984).
15. Van Halen, “Panama”(1984).
16. Velvet Underground, “Jesus”(1970).
17. Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.”(1983).
18. Michael Jackson, “Beat It”(1983).
19. The Feelies, “The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness”(1979) and “On the Roof”(1986).
Cassette Seven
(A)
“Don’t ask me about the mid-eighties. “
1. Van Morrison, “Sweet Thing”(1969).
2. Bob Dylan, “Most of the Time”(1986).
3. Big Star, “September Gurls”(1972).
4. Yo La Tengo, “Five Years”(1984).
5. Chris Stamey, “Cara Lee”(1985).
6. They Might Be Giants, “Dead”(1984).
7. Victoria Williams, “The Holy Spirit”(1987).
8. Robin Holcomb, “Going, Going, Gone”(1988).
9. The Proclaimers, “I’m Going to Be (500 Miles)”(1988).
10. A.C./D.C, “Back in Black”(1978).
11. Hall & Oates, “You Make My Dreams Come True”(1984).
(B)
12. R.E.M., “It’s the End of World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”(1987).
13. Elvis Costello, “I Want You”(1987).
14. Prince, “Sign O’ the Times”(1986).
15. Captain Beefheart, “Low Yo Yo”(1973).
16. Metallica, “Enter Sandman”(1990).
17. The Cucumbers, “My Town”(1987).
18. Pogues, “Fairytale in New York”(1988).
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