The Ice Storm
A beautifully crafted, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life. In 1973, after a freak winter storm hits an affluent Connecticut suburb, fathers and mothers swap partners, and their children experiment with drugs, sex--even suicide. Into this chaos, two families come...
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A beautifully crafted, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life. In 1973, after a freak winter storm hits an affluent Connecticut suburb, fathers and mothers swap partners, and their children experiment with drugs, sex--even suicide. Into this chaos, two families come face-to-face with emotions seething just below the surface.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446671484 (0446671487)
ASIN: 446671487
Publish date: April 10th 2002
Publisher: Warner 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 ...
10 years ago
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