Rick Moody - The Ice Storm

“Packed with keen observation and sympathy for human failure.”

“A remarkable, brave, and beautiful book. With intelligence, restraint, and without sentimentality, Rick Moody has created a moving portrait of a nuclear family meltdown.”

“Moody is a stylishly clever writer…. A deft second novel.”

“Insightful and convincing.”

“Moody’s poignant tale of that night’s turbulent events places him in the tradition of such other suburban WASP authors as Cheever and Updike. But by focusing on the children of these confused adults, he puts a distinctly nineties spin on what might seem familiar territory.”

“Rick Moody writes exquisite, word-smitten prose.”

“Should appeal to readers who lived through the 70s and to members of Generation X, who seem to be fascinated by the decade of their birth.”

“THE ICE STORM works on so many levels, and is so smartly written, that it should establish Moody as one of his generation’s bellwether voices…. Builds toward a remarkable scene that will change everyone’s life forever.”

“Excellent… Moody’s second quirky novel is a huge 70s nostalgia trip, a litany of kitsch, a mountain of memorabilia as the backdrop to a bittersweet story of suburban America.”

“A blackly funny, beautifully written novel… remarkably mature, containing far more insights about family life and far more wisdom than any 29-year-old author should reasonably possess. Moody is clearly a writer to watch.”

“One of the wittiest books about family life ever written.”

“A dead-on portrait of wayward teens…. Brilliantly captures the era’s oversexed sorrow.”

“It is beautiful, in the strange way that tragedy can be — heartrending, awesome — and it resonates deeply long after the reader is finished with the book.”

“Elegant, moving, and regenerative.”

“Remarkable… at times the author’s exploration of human frailty is profound…. A fine novel.”

“THE ICE STORM is reminiscent of Cheever and Updike in the best of ways. Rick Moody comes off as the true heir, the next generation. His is an often elegant, if unsettling, view of family life.”

Garden State

If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this book may have been stolen property and reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”

I need also to acknowledge some people and institutions who have made the composition of this possible: Fishers Island Colony, Yaddo, MacDowell, Michael Pietsch, Malanie Jackson, the Count de Cenci, D.A., Helen Schulman, Dan Barden, John Crutcher, N.B.W., Shrug, Jack Moody, Angela Carter, and especially Jules.

Warner Books Edition Copyright © 1994 by Rick Moody All Rights Reserved.

This Warner Books edition is published by arrangement with Little, Brown & Co., 34 Beacon St., Boston MA 02108.

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First Warner Books Printing: August 1995

Reissued: October 1997

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moody, Rick.

The ice storm / Rick Moody. — Warner Books ed.

p. cm

ISBN 0-446-67148-7 (pbk.)

1. Family—United States—Fiction. I. Title. [PS3563.05537124 1995]

813’54-dc20 95-11750

CIP

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