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Rick Moody
DEMONOLOGY: Stories
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Rick Moody
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Rick Moody has been consistently acclaimed for his literary novels and short stories. Dealing with such topics as personal and family relationships, sexuality, mortality, and adolescence, Moody writes unabashedly about human nature. Moody's latest book, The Black Veil, is an intense, personal look at the man himself. His fiction includes Demonology, Purple America, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, The Ice Storm, and Garden State.
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- Rick Moody worked at Simon & Schuster and Farrar Straus prior to becoming a published novelist, according to a 2/21/01 New York Times interview with the author.
- Rick Moody has won a Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award, an Addison Metcalf Award, an Aga Khan Prize, and a Guffenheim Fellowship for his work.
- Rick Moody's short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Paris Review, and Harper's.
- Rick Moody began writing at an early age, "abandoning" two novels when he was in the sixth grade, according to a 2/21/01 New York Times interview with the author.
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Rick Moody is the author of the novels Purple America (1997) and The Ice
Storm (1994) and the story collection The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
(1995). His fiction and essays have been published in the New Yorker, Esquire,
the Paris Review, Harper's, Grand Street, Details, and
the New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn.
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