Rick Moody - Demonology

“A bitter and loving and damning tribute to the American family…. This is a good book, packed with keen observation and sympathy for human failure.”

— Adam Begley, Chicago Tribune

“Moody is a stylishly clever writer.“

— Time

“The Ice Storm works on so many levels, and is so smartly written, that it should establish Rick Moody as one of his generation’s bell wether voices.“

— Hungry Mind Review

THE RING OF BRIGHTEST ANGELS AROUND HEAVEN

A Novella and Stories

“Intense and unnerving.… A narcotizing tour-de-force of sex, drugs, and dementia.”

— Vanity Fair

“Often wonderful…. Moody’s language pushes and pulls boundaries; it avoids and seeks intimacy, with the same insistence, terror, and self-consciousness as Moody’s protagonists.”

— Amy Bloom, Boston Globe

PURPLE AMERICA

A Novel

“A tough, funny, gorgeously detailed domestic thriller…. Purple America is the stuff of classical tragedy, told in insistent, laser-bright prose. Reading it is a transfiguring experience.”

— Ben Neihart, Baltimore Sun

“By turns utterly harrowing and guiltily hilarious.… An emotional roller coaster destined to be considered one of the fictional achievements of a generation.”

— Rob Spillman, Details

“Mr. Moody at his best.”

— JANET MASLIN, New York Times

“Rick Moody is one of those writers you can’t ignore, because you don’t know what he’ll come up with next Yes, on the surface it’s Moody’s daring and talent that exhilarate us, but on a deeper level we recognize the effort his people make to memorize their losses, to somehow keep alive what can’t be saved, to placate their demons.”

— STEWART O’NAN, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“By turns terrifying and wickedly funny…. A delightfully quirky collection.”

— MICHAEL SHELDEN, Baltimore Sun

“Demonology, both the story and the collection, is a shriek of pain, a rending of garments, a howl…. It seems totally beside the point to ask whether these stories are good, or bad, or entertaining. They’re overwhelming. For me, the appropriate response to a book like this is an answering cry, a matching confession.” —NAN GOLDBERG, New York Observer

In Demonology Rick Moody writes with equal force about the blithe energies of youth (“Boys“) and the rueful onset of middle age (“Hawaiian Night“), about midwestern optimists (“The Double Zero“) and West Coast strategists (“On the Carousel“), about visionary exhilaration (“Forecast from the Retail Desk“) and delusional catharsis (“Surplus Value Books: Catalog Number 13“). This exuberantly praised collection, full of deep feeling and stunningly beautiful language, firmly establishes Rick Moody as one of the leading literary voices of his generation.

RICK MOODYis also the author of the novels Purple America, The Ice Storm, and Garden State, which won the Pushcart Press Editors’ Book Award; one previous collection of short fiction, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven; and a memoir, The Black Veil. He has received the Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, the Paris Review, Harper’s, and Grand Street.