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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. Moody lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A little book of irony and wit and heartbreak ... At its heart, Hotels of North America is a close examination of the middle-aged American male in sexual, emotional and financial free fall New York Times A little book that raises such big questions -- Eugenia Williamson Boston Globe Moody's chilly, lacerating prose is a seduction LA Times Praise for Rick Moody: 'Moody's powers of invention, his ease in his own prose, his ability to develop interesting characters - in short, his enormous gifts as a writer - are on full display here. New York Times Book Review Entertaining and often poignant, probing the limits of technology, consciousness, and language in the face of grief. New Yorker Remarkable, brave, and beautiful -- Jeffrey Eugenides Rick Moody is one of our best writers Washington Post Moody makes sure we know when the laughs should hurt ... never puts a foot wrong. New York Times Rick Moody is one of the most prodigiously talented writers in America. Wall Street Journal Bold and thrilling ... Rick Moody has spirit and drive and talent to burn -- Walter Kirn New York Times Book Review Sometimes swashbuckling, sometimes laserlike, Moody can spin out the absurdity of human behavior in giddy syntactic arabesques, or nail it with a single noun Boston Globe
