The Ice Storm

Name: The Ice Storm
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Rick Moody
ISBN: 9780349110301

Rick Moody

05/02/1998
Abacus

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Couverture de The Ice Storm par Rick Moody

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur 'One of the wittiest books about family life ever written' Guardian'A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book' Jeffrey Eugenides 'A blackly funny and beautifully written novel' Sunday TimesSuburban New England, and the Hood family are about to wish they'd stayed home....1973 - 'The last year of the sixties' as the author describes it. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years the local families gather for a party - the highlight of which is the wife-swapping 'key game' - and for two couples this supposedly harmless piece of liberal-minded entertainment spells permanent disaster.Astutely acerbic, painfully funny, The Ice Storm is an astonishing novel of the decade that taste forgot. Revue de presse THE ICE STORM is one of the wittiest books about family life ever written ( THE GUARDIAN) A huge '70s nostalgia trip, a litany of kitsch, a mountain of memorabilia as the backdrop to a bitter-sweet story of suburban America. ( TIME OUT) With intelligence, restraint, and without sentimentality, Rick Moody has created a moving portrait of a nuclear family meltdown. A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book ( Jeffrey Eugenides author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES) A blackly funny and beautifully written novel. ( SUNDAY TIMES) Biographie de l'auteur Rick Moody was born in New York City and attended Brown and Columbia Universities. His first novel, GARDEN STATE, was published in 1992. He has also published short fiction and essays in many US journals such as STORM and THE PARIS REVIEW.