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Black Veil
A Memoir
by Rick Moody
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Rick Moody uses a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil," which he suspects is based on an ancestor of his, as the backbone for his memoir. Moody writes about the ways in which his ancestors have influenced him (not for the better!), about his research into the family's past, and about his own early years of drifting and drinking, his bizarre fears, and his various breakdowns. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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9780316578998,
Hardcover,
Little Brown & Co,
2002
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9780316739016,
Paperback,
Back Bay Books,
2003
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Publisher Notes
The author weaves together past and present and family legend as he shares his personal story of dealing with depression, and his search through his family's paternal lines to find clues to his melancholy.
Media Reviews
"[T]he opening chapters of this memoir evince...an energetic love of language and an eye for social detail....About halfway through, however, the book begins a steep nose dive. We come to realize that Mr. Moody has been slyly withholding information from us, and that many of his digressions are...free-associative riffs adding up to nothing but hot air....All of [this] suggests....that, halfway through, Mr. Moody abandoned the effort to transform self-indulgent fragments into something that might properly be called a book."
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