The Ice Storm: A Novel

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, afflu ent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap par tners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Her e two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the see thing emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel wide ly hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life. Editorial Reviews About the Author Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18, 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. His first novel Garden State (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. His memoir The Black Veil (2002) won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. He has also received the Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, the Paris Review, Harper's, Details, the New York Times, and Grand Street. He grew up in several of the Connecticut suburbs where he later set stories and novels, including Darien and New Canaan. He graduated from St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, Brown University, received a master's degree in fine art from Columbia University and has taught at the State University of New York at Purchase and Benn.

Product Info

ISBN: 0316706000

ISBN-13: 9780316706001

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Year: 2002

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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