Most Popular Books by Rick Moody

Rick Moody is the author of La più lucente corona d'angeli in cielo (2024), El velo negro (2003), Rosso americano (2018), Il velo nero (2018), Tormenta de Hielo (1997).

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La più lucente corona d'angeli in cielo

release date: May 16, 2024
La più lucente corona d'angeli in cielo
Se la vita che fai non è quella che sognavi, scappa. L’East Village, il quartiere più bello e dannato di New York, rivive attraverso le vicende di Jorge, Toni e Randy, che a turno dipingono una realtà torbida, promiscua, fuori dal tempo, fatta di locali sadomaso, crack, prostituzione, i cui protagonisti sono persone qualunque cui il caso ha deciso di far toccare i punti estremi dell’esistenza. Un perito assicurativo dalla psiche instabile affronta la sua vita coniugale passando in rassegna le telefonate registrate all’insaputa della moglie; la delirante confessione di una brutta delusione amorosa viene trasposta in un lavoro accademico sull’Apocalisse; James Dean sopravvive all’incidente d’auto per mettere in piedi una improbabile band rock in un paesino sperduto della California. Rick Moody, uno dei più grandi scrittori americani della sua generazione, racconta traiettorie umane fatte di amori infelici, eccessi, fanatismo e perdizione in un libro che è un’intensa poetica delle occasioni perdute, in cui le vite eccezionali che incontriamo sono solo apparentemente molto lontane dalle nostre. “La più lucente corona d’angeli in cielo sembra quasi scritto in trance. Uno di quei felici apici che è possibile raggiungere una volta o due in tutta la vita, se si è fortunati. Ma molto fortunati.” Tommaso Pincio

El velo negro

release date: Jan 01, 2003

Rosso americano

release date: Dec 05, 2018
Rosso americano
“ Hex Raitliffe. Se costui è un eroe, allora gli eroi sono a bizzeffe, e il mondo ne è pieno come lo è di cani randagi, gomme lisce e chiavi smarrite.” Salutato all’unanimità dalla critica americana come un vero capolavoro, Rosso americano racconta due giorni della vita di Hex Raitliffe, costretto a ritornare nella cittadina dove è nato e cresciuto per prendersi cura della madre ammalata. Mentre, intorno a lui, i frammenti scomposti di un passato dimenticato si intrecciano con le conseguenze di un incidente in una centrale nucleare, il precipitare delle condizioni della madre costringe Hex a prendere una decisione straziante, la più difficile e impegnativa della sua vita. Rick Moody è capace di costruire storie ricche e coinvolgenti, di concepire pagine di rarissima intensità poetica e di toccare le questioni fondamentali dell’esistenza di ognuno: la difficoltà della crescita, l’amore per i genitori, la fatica dell’assumersi responsabilità, le complicazioni del vivere.

Il velo nero

release date: Dec 05, 2018
Il velo nero
Bello e dannato come gli eroi dei suoi romanzi, Rick Moody racconta in questa autobiografia la caduta nell’abisso delle droghe e dell’alcool, gli anni più difficili della sua vita e la storia di una famiglia che affonda le proprie radici nella nascita degli Stati Uniti d’America. Lo scrittore newyorkese intreccia i ricordi della propria vita alla ricostruzione del passato familiare, a cominciare dal suo antenato che, per aver provocato involontariamente la morte di un amico, passò il resto della vita con il volto coperto da un velo. “ Moody depista il lettore, schiva le spiegazioni più immediate, riducendole a disordine e ambiguità.” Alex Clark, The Guardian “ Il velo nero è uno straordinario libro sulla natura umana, vista attraverso la lente deformante di una condizione che ha la forza di piegarla e negarla: la malinconia.” Edoardo Nesi

Tormenta de Hielo

release date: Sep 02, 1997

Tempesta di ghiaccio

release date: Jan 01, 2011

Wassersucher

release date: Jan 01, 2006

The Four Fingers of Death

release date: Jun 05, 2014
The Four Fingers of Death
Ideal for fans of such comic masterpieces as "Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49," and "Catch-22, The Four Fingers of Death" is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel by the author of "The Diviners."

Il velo nero. Memoir con digressioni

release date: Jan 01, 2018

Tin House

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Tin House
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Laurel Nakadate--365 Days

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Laurel Nakadate--365 Days
On New Years Day of 2010, the American video artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) began a year-long performance in which she cried once every day. She documented these crying sessions in 365 photographs that record a ritualized intent to "deliberately take part in sadness each day." Drawing out the biological symptoms of human vulnerability with extraordinary persistence, with this project Nakadate updated the endurance strategies of 1970s conceptual and performance art (Marina Abramovic, Bas Jan Ader) for a new generation with a new relationship to the camera lens. As with the work of her predecessors, Nakadate''s self-portraits of willed sadness arouse a range of conflicting emotions in the viewer, from embarrassment to compassion. 365 Days, A Catalogue of Tears reproduces the full set of photographs and examines their negotiation of intimacy, self-reflection, portraiture and the artist''s relationship with her audience.

Charlatan

release date: Jan 01, 2017
Charlatan
This story collection spans three decades'' worth of writing by a writer perplexed by her own sexuality, gender, and identity.

Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42: 20th. Anniversary Issue

release date: Jan 06, 2023
Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42: 20th. Anniversary Issue
Fuentes Winner Luisa Valenzuela nails mother-daughter dynamic. Award Winner Ursula K. Le Guin reveals benefits of preaching to the choir. Mahmoud Darwish explores states of siege. Julie Busic reminds us wars reverberate long after the shooting''s stopped. New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler visits Occupy Wall St. & survives the day. Portland chronicler Jennifer Robin travels Portland''s neofeudal Public Transport, & survives the night. Melanie Alldritt looks at looking at looking at that girl''s hair in an infinite loop. Portland tr. OR. Book Award Finalist Matthew Robinson writes a timelapse Western history. From further afield we''ve cartoons from director & illustrator Liz Swados, & Lithuanian Holocaust scholar Migle Anusauskaite; Cristina Álvarez Lopez runs with Keith Jarrett; Croatian writer Josip Razum shows a man, his wife, his family & a painting; Danish Birgit Munch describes peculiar disownments; Vénus Khoury-Ghata, tr. by Marilyn Hacker, reveals a secret prehistory of words. Oz poet Les Murray offers precise perceptions & Swiss author Christoph Keller recalls Murray''s kindness; Croatian Armin Harambasic shows all of life, waiting at a train station. Lidia Yuknavitch hatches an escape from Group, Susan Daitch guards the night, Rick Moody names all things legends omit. Mo Daviau nails Norman Mailer; Oscar winner Frederic Raphael nails a tale told by Petronius. Croatian graphic artist Mirolsav Nemeth takes a gleeful graphic journey to Rome. Japanese artist Midori Oki''s art installation dives beneath the skin; Croatian Monica Herceg & Estonian Triin Paja relate souls to forests; Lance Olsen shows a digressive street encounter between Bowie & a neighborhood character; Croatian essayist Dubravka Oraic Tolic shows how the world changed even before Baader Meinhof. PNW writers Poe Ballantine & Kurt Eisenlohr go their sardonic ways while Mark Sargent describes being anywhere with Gregory Corso. Poets near & far: Coleman Stevenson, Leanne Grabel, Armin Tolentino, Brenda Taulbee, David Biespiel; Greek poets Dinos Siotis, Thanos Gogos, Phoebe Giannisi, Petros Skythiotis, poets fr. other climes, Robert Walser, Miroslav Kirin, Tomica Bajsic, Nina Wieda, Andrei Sen-Senkov, & Marge Piercy. Prose fr. Peter Fogtdal, & graphics fr. Tania Cardoso (Rio/Rotterdam) complete Gobshite 2023.

Cercasi batterista, chiamare Alice

release date: Jan 01, 2006

The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review No. 18

release date: Apr 01, 2013
The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review No. 18
"Eclectic selection of work from both emerging and established writers...." (The Washington Post), Eckleburg is a collection of stories, poetry, translations, and artwork by award-winning and emerging talents such as Rick Moody, Stephen Dixon, Cris Mazza, and Eckleburg''s 2013 Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction winner, Jill Birdsall. Eckleburg No. 18 is a textual and graphic innovation for both the traditionalists and nonconformists.

Diviners. I rabdomanti

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Lila Amerika

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Purpurna Amerika

release date: Jan 01, 2003

A la recherche du voile noir

release date: Jan 01, 2006
A la recherche du voile noir
En racontant sa propre existence, on croise inévitablement des fantômes... Pour Rick Moody, c''est un ancêtre pasteur à l''étrange destinée : Joseph Moody qui, après avoir commis un meurtre, a décidé de cacher son visage sous un voile noir. La figure symbolique de l''aïeul devient le centre de gravité d''un récit qui lève le voile sur les démons de l''Amérique. Un texte brillant, qui manie les genres avec une virtuosité implacable.

Surplus Value Books

release date: Jan 01, 2000

The Galapagos Kid: Or the Last Great All-American Boy

release date: Dec 01, 1996
The Galapagos Kid: Or the Last Great All-American Boy
The first novel by the acclaimed author of The Ice Storm and Purple America traces a group of friends in Haledon, New Jersey, through one spring in their rocky passage toward adulthood. They are out of school, trying to start a band, trying to find work - looking for something to do in the degraded terrain of their suburban hometown. Garden State captures the lyricism of stark lives in an intense and unforgettable story of friendship and betrayal. With a new preface by the author.

Circumference, Issue 4

release date: Dec 01, 2005

Joyful Noise

release date: Dec 01, 1998
Joyful Noise
Paperback is the ideal format for this acclaimed anthology in which twenty-one prominent American writers -- all of whom came of age in the baby boom and Generation X years -- look at the New Testament with a fresh eye toward its meaning for them, and for us, today. These thought-provoking essays will reassure, excite, and inspire anyone who has felt the need to approach spirituality in a personal or unorthodox way. With an introduction by Rick Moody and an afterword by Darcey Steinke, Joyful Noise includes contributions from: Madison Smartt Bell -- April Bernard -- Catherine Bowman -- Joseph Caldwell -- Benjamin Cheever -- Lydia Davis -- Jeffrey Eugenides -- Eurydice -- Coco Fusco -- Lucy Grealy -- Barry Hannah -- bell hooks -- Jim Lewis -- Ann Patchett -- Ann Powers -- Joanna Scott -- Lisa Shea -- Stephen Westfall -- Kim Wozencraft Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Tempestade de gelo

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Tempête de glace

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Tempête de glace
1972. Une banlieue résidentielle dans l''Est des Etats-Unis. Benjamin Hood et Janey Williams se préparent, une fois de plus, à tromper leurs conjoints respectifs. Janey sort de la chambre d''amis, entre dans la salle de bains. Pendant ce temps, à l''étage au-dessus, leurs enfants s''apprêtent à vivre leur première expérience sexuelle. Tout va bien. II suffira pourtant de quelques jours pour que cette paisible communauté suburbaine se retrouve sens dessus - dessous, dévastée par l''irruption simultanée de l''échangisme et d''une tempête d''une force inouïe. Désormais, plus rien ne sera comme avant. Tempête de glace est d''abord une comédie, étincelante comme le givre qui enrobe les paysages du New Jersey, les nimbant d''un éclat féerique, tandis que les images du Watergate défilent à la télévision. Avec, en fond sonore, les premières chansons de Lou Reed et des New York Dolls. Mais c''est aussi une réflexion sur la fin d''une certaine Amérique, et un drame poignant. Au-delà de la reconstitution virtuose des années 70, ce roman implacable met en lumière l''irresponsabilité d''une génération et ses effets sur la génération suivante. Adapté au cinéma par Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, 1998), Tempête de glace est le deuxième roman de Rick Moody. Son dernier livre, The Black Veil, paraîtra à l''Olivier en 2004.

La tormenta de hielo

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Démonologie

release date: Oct 06, 2016
Démonologie
"Le type qui travaillait de neuf à cinq sous un masque de poulet, c''était moi, même si j''avais fait d''assez longues études en gestion commerciale, même si je présentais plutôt bien et si je ne parlais pas trop mal, même si je venais de ce qu''on appelle une bonne famille." Ils peuplent les fast-foods, les agences d''événementiel ou le monde de la finance. De l''extérieur, tout va bien pour les héros de Démonologie. En réalité chacun lutte pour garder l''équilibre. Et la chute n''est jamais loin. La mort d''une sueur, l''aliénation, un amour impossible, une addiction : comme un vernis qui se craquelle, le quotidien laisse affleurer à sa surface les failles les plus intimes.

Der Eissturm

release date: Jan 01, 1995

Burza lodowa

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Fair Use

release date: Jan 01, 2001

Introduction to Media Art

release date: Jan 01, 1997

Connecticut: a Memoir

release date: Jan 01, 2008
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