Demonology : Stories

by Moody, Rick

• ISBN13: 9780316588744
• ISBN10: 0316588741
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

In paperback at last: the exuberantly praised collection of short fiction--welcomed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review--that has firmly established Rick Moody as one of the leading literary voices of his generation. . A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times bestseller. . All four of Rick Moody's previous books will be simultaneously reissued as Back Bay trade paperbacks with a fresh, uniform look (see page 31). . Rick Moody's new hardcover, a memoir entitled The Black Veil, will be published in May 2002 (see page 14)--and will no doubt receive major review attention. . He has received the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Author Biography

Rick Moody is the author of the novels Purple America, The Ice Storm, and Garden State, which won the Pushcart Press Editor's Choice Award. He is a past recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2000 won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Moody has contributed fiction and essays to The New Yorker, Esquire, Paris Review, Harper's, Grand Street, Details, and the New York Times. He lives in New York

Table of Contents

The Mansion on the Hill	p. 3
On the Carousel	p. 53
The Double Zero	p. 66
Forecast from the Retail Desk	p. 82
Hawaiian Night	p. 106
Drawer	p. 115
Pan's Fair Throng	p. 118
The Carnival Tradition	p. 133
Wilkie Fahnstock: The Boxed Set	p. 227
Boys	p. 239
Ineluctable Modality of the Vaginal	p. 247
Surplus Value Books: Catalogue Number 13	p. 264
Demonology	p. 291
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