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Article: Purple America.(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- April 28, 1997
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PURPLE AMERICA by Rick Moody (Little, Brown. $22.95). Rick Moody's third novel brings together a mother's progressive paralysis, a son's alcoholism and nuclear follies from Hbomb tests to power-plant accidents. Profound? Silly? You'll never know if you don't get past the second sentence of"Purple America," which goes on for four pages, strung together out of "whosoever" clauses. True, it's a demand for unconditional surrender before you're told what you're surrendering to. But the "hero," Hex Raitliffe, is a ...
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...Rick Moody, American fiction's modern master ... importance of italics. According to Rick Moody, his new book of stories, Demonology ... when he deadpans that his 1997 novel Purple America is "a really long single sentence about ...
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