The Ice Storm
This novel about a fractured suburban family and a Thanksgiving weekend that changed life forever is a devastating statement on American political & moral values in the 1970s--the era of Nixon and Vietnam, bad music and shag carpeting, cheap psychology and "key parties"
This novel about a fractured suburban family and a Thanksgiving weekend that changed life forever is a devastating statement on American political & moral values in the 1970s--the era of Nixon and Vietnam, bad music and shag carpeting, cheap psychology and "key parties"
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316706001 (0316706000)
ASIN: 316706000
Publish date: April 10th 2002
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Family,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody1973 Thanksgiving weekend, about how the family is falling apart.Benjamin Hood - His mistress Janie Williams. He's had affairs before, he strives to have things he can't have.Story also follows Wendy Williams who's in high school and she's waiting to meet up with Mikey who...
I enjoy books about key parties.
The American literati bristled last year when one of the Nobel Prize bigwigs said the country’s writers were too entangled with their own mass culture to get close to a new Nobel in Literature. I don’t think that’s entirely true, but after reading "The Ice Storm" I have to say I suspect the Swedish ...
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