Demonology
Stories
by Rick Moody
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This volume of stories about slackers, madmen, movie people, grad students, and just plain eccentrics includes two long stories: "The Mansion on the Hill," about an employee at an elaborate wedding venue, and "The Carnival Tradition," a two-part tale set in New Jersey about a bulimic dancer and her gallery-owning boyfriend. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Editions of Demonology
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Little Brown & Co |
Date 2001 |
Price $1.00 |
 Used, Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Back Bay Books |
Date 2002 |
Price $1.00 |
Good |
Publisher Notes
The author of Purple America and Ice Storm serves up a new collection of stories that seals his reputation as one of the best American writers under the age of forty.
Media Reviews
"The collection conveys a sense of overflowing inventiveness, never retaining the same tone or form from one story to the next and including such experiments as a two-page sketch of a doomed love and a pair of biographies of ne'er-do-well eccentrics, portrayed via annotated lists of their record and book collections....Some of these sportive offerings are dazzlingly successful, but their overall effect is wearing....The result...is a set of exercises too miscellaneous to add up...to the literary equivalent of an artist's patterned exhibition of new work."
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