Rick Moody
All Books By Rick Moody
Hotels of North America
- By: Rick Moody
- Narrator: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 10, 2015
- Language: English
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3.24(1344 ratings)
Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just details of hotels around the globe — they tell his life story. The puzzle of Reginald’s life comes together through reviews that comment upon his motivational speaking career, the dissolution of his marriage, the separation from his beloved daughter, and his devotion to an amour known only as “K.”
But when Reginald disappears, we are left with the fragments of a life — or at least the life he has carefully constructed — which writer Rick Moody must make sense of. An inventive blurring of the lines between the real and the fabricated, Hotels of North America demonstrates Moody’s masterly ability to push the bounds of the novel.
The Long Accomplishment
- By: Rick Moody
- Narrator: Rick Moody
- Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 06, 2019
- Language: English
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3.55(48 ratings)
This program is read by the author.
Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage–an eventful month-by-month account–in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony.
At this story’s start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is, fully and for the first time in his life, “Yes.”
And so his second marriage begins as he emerges, humbly and with tender hopes, from the wreckage of his past, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles–miscarriages, the deaths of friends, and robberies, just for starters. As Moody has put it, “this is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple, lifting them above their hardships, and the listener is buoyed along with them.
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