- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Back Bay Books UK (April 2 1997)
- ISBN-10: 0316557633
- ASIN: B000FVHJAI
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
Short stories which experiment with form in delineating the hipster lives of misfits, drug addicts and the sexually adventurous.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
These New Jersey kids have it all: rage, poverty, depression, paranoia, violent sex, cheap booze, mental hospitals, nihilism, street drugs, suicide. It's an American nightmare set to a blaring punk-and-thrash soundtrack. What are their prospects: "Nothing had come since high school and . . . nothing would come of the years ahead." What about their parents: "Lower down, Ruthie loved disaster." Not deeper down, just lower. Work is a trap, family a sick joke, and not even fantasy brings relief: "Fantasies are like ideals. . . . Close in on them and they move. Further out, mostly." Unlike Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho ( LJ 1/91) and similar rolls in the sleaze, this book is well and subtly written. You may not initially identify with these folks, but you learn just how they feel, why they try to escape, and why running solves nothing. In the end, can there be any hope that a cynical heavy metal bimbo and a fragile former mental patient will help each other turn their lives around? Well, maybe. This winner of Pushcart's Tenth Annual Editors' Book Award is very powerful. Highly recommended.
- Jim Dwyer, California State Univ. at Chico
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Jim Dwyer, California State Univ. at Chico
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Ummm...What was the Point again?,
This review is from: Garden State: A Novel (Paperback)
In "Garden State", Rick Moody tries to pull off Bret Easton Ellis by way of Haledon, NJ and either succeeds brilliantly or fails horribly depending on your viewpoint. The novel has a lot going for it, but ultimately I finished the book out of inertia rather than actually caring about the outcome or any of the characters in it. Like Bon Jovi's ode to the state, I wanted to like this book, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Moody fans: try Mark Jude Poirier,
By "patchbar" (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Garden State: A Novel (Paperback)
Fellow fans of Rick Moody: Try Mark Jude Poirier's book Goats if you want something that is as touching and thoughtful as Ice Storm. I love both and you might, too!
1.0 out of 5 stars
ditto to the reader from Miss.,
By "ka-boom" (Orono, Me USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Garden State: A Novel (Paperback)
So my favorites are Thom Jones, Denis Johnson, George Saunders, Rick Bass, and the like. Someone said "Oh you should check out Moody". In a word, this book was slow. I found it hard to care about and the only thing that moved me was trying to see if more would be written about the guitarist's leather pants. It seemed like it was trying to do what Jesus' Son nailed to the wall- contempory non-beautiful people down to Earth honest to God in your face fictional realism. It didn't make it. I hesitate to read Ice Storm.
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