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from aseikonia

I truly enjoyed this rambling, spiraling, yet consistently coherent memoir. Moody's account of patrimony, addiction, family history, American history, Nathaniel Hawthorne, literary criticism, depression, and modern American does digress indeed, but always in brilliant sweeps that return the reade...

from librarybrandy

Moody did manage to tie together his memoir with "The Minister's Black Veil," but ultimately it was because of a genealogy project--the Moody in the story being, according to family legend, one of Rick Moody's ancestors.The memoir parts of the book were interesting, and I really enjoyed those sec...

from janey47

This was lovely and peculiar and many different things all at once. I really appreciated the fact that it is a memoir of his drug/alcohol addiction without being self serving or grotesque and also that the metaphor he chose and the Nathanial Hawthorne short story that reveals it are so apt withou...