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Article: MOODY BLUES; `Ice Storm' novelist Rick Moody, in a new memoir, finds the roots of melancholy in his family tree.(VARIETY)(TALKING VOLUMES)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 5, 2002
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Byline: John Habich; Staff Writer
New York, N.Y. -- As trim as his haircut, as sunny as the vista from his fianc?ee's 10th-floor apartment, Rick Moody cuts a different figure from the long-maned literary renegade whose reputation sprang from his withering accounts of despair, dysfunction and drunkenness in suburbia - most famously in "The Ice Storm."
But it took this reinvented man to pinpoint the inner demons of his younger life, which inhabit his first work of nonfiction.
In "The Black Veil: A Memoir With Digressions" - the new selection of the Talking Volumes book club sponsored by the Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio and the Loft ...