![]() All of them are childish, all find sex a locus for deep humiliation all are lonely. The story concerns a family, the Hoods, in New Canaan, New England. The Ice Storm is frequently farcical, but what makes it also heart rending is not the fact that its characters are dots in a landscape that will exist long after they have gone but people who must endure beyond the ephemera that serves to diminish them. The shag rug, in mustard and forest green, or puce and grey, becomes Moody's emblem of bad taste, absorbing the detritus - from cheese bits to semen - of lost souls and maladjusted human beings. Rick Moody's second novel vibrates with period detail, though it is some way off being lovingly recreated. ![]() ![]() If 1973 doesn't sound unnerving in itself, consider Go Ask Alice, David Cassidy, Godspell and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. ![]()
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