Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas

Author:   Rick Moody
Publisher:   Back Bay Books
ISBN:  

9780316166355


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 August 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas


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"Right Livelihoods begins with a cataclysmic vision of New York City after the leveling of 50 square blocks of Manhattan. Four million have died. Albertine, the ""street name for the buzz of a lifetime,"" is a mind-altering drug that sets The Albertine Notes in motion. The collection's second novella, K & K, concerns a lonely young office manager at an insurance agency, where the office suggestion box is yielding unpleasant messages that escalate to a scary pitch. Ellie Knight-Cameron's responses to these random diatribes illuminate the toll that a lack of self-awareness can take. At the center of The Omega Force is a buffoonish former government official in rocky recovery. Dr. ""Jamie"" Van Deusen is determined to protect his habitat -- its golf courses (and Bloody Marys), pizza places (and beers) from ""dark-complected"" foreign nationals. His patriotism and wild imagination are mainly fueled by a fall off the wagon. Only Rick Moody could lead us to feel affection for this man and the other misguided, earnestly striving characters in these alternately unsettling, warm, trio of stories."

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Author:   Rick Moody
Publisher:   Back Bay Books
Imprint:   Back Bay Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 20.90cm
Weight:   0.231kg
ISBN:  

9780316166355


ISBN 10:   0316166359
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 August 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia Universities. He is the author of four previous novels: The Four Fingers of Death, Purple America, The Ice Storm, and Garden State, as well as an award-winning memoir and multiple collections of short fiction. Moody is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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