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The Ice Storm

The Ice Storm

by RickMoody (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1998

    $3.85

  • New

    Paperback 2002

    $21.50
Synopsis

Nixon and 'Nam, pet rocks and shag rugs, wife-swapping and party-hopping. Suburban New England, 1973, and the Hood family are about to wish they'd stayed home. Astutely acerbic, painfully funny, THE ICE STORM is an astonishing novel of the decade that taste forgot. 1973 - 'The last year of the sixties' as the author describes it. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years the local families gather for a party - the highlight of which is the wife-swapping 'key game' - and for two couples this supposedly harmless piece of liberal-minded entertainment spells permanent disaster. Rick Moody's first novel is a dark satire on the 1970s, the gadgets, the music, the politics and most of all the people.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Abacus
Published: 05 Feb 1998
ISBN 10: 0349110301
ISBN 13: 9780349110301
Book Overview: *A witty and wonderful book about 1970s family life, that has been made into a critically acclaimed film.

Media Reviews
THE ICE STORM is one of the wittiest books about family life ever written * THE GUARDIAN *
A huge '70s nostalgia trip, a litany of kitsch, a mountain of memorabilia as the backdrop to a bitter-sweet story of suburban America. * TIME OUT *
With intelligence, restraint, and without sentimentality, Rick Moody has created a moving portrait of a nuclear family meltdown. A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book * Jeffrey Eugenides author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES *
A blackly funny and beautifully written novel. * SUNDAY TIMES *
Author Bio
Rick Moody was born in New York City and attended Brown and Columbia Universities. His first novel, GARDEN STATE, was published in 1992. He has also published short fiction and essays in many US journals such as STORM and THE PARIS REVIEW.