Hotels of North America - Hardcover

Praise for "The Four Fingers of Death: "
"[Moody's] energy and sheer inventiveness make "The Four Fingers of Death" an original and exhilarating read." "Jane Ciabattari, "NPR.com"""

"Comic, grim, tender and masterful....Highlight[s] Moody's gift for being as thoughtful as he is entertaining." ""Bloomberg"""

"The book is entertaining and often poignant, probing the limits of technology, consciousness, and language in the face of grief." ""The New Yorker"
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"[A] comic tour de force...Moody is at his most daring and arresting." ""Bookforum"""

Praise for "Right Livelihoods"
"Marvelous....at once deadpan and antic.... 'The Albertine Notes' is one of the best stories to appear in the new millennium; it underscores that Rick Moody is one of our best writers." ""Washington Post Book World"
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"Moody's chilly, lacerating prose is a seduction." ""Los Angeles Times"
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"His subtlest and most darkly comical performance yet." ""Chicago Tribune"
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Praise for "Hotels of North America"
"Moody offers both a subtle psychological portrait and even the hint of a mystery-'what I would call the mystery of Reginald Morse, ' he writes with game-is-afoot breathlessness in an afterword. It's a slyly delightful turn, considering all we've learned about Reginald and his views . . . Lively and lightly written . . . A sardonic but entertaining look at modern American life."
""Kirkus"""

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, National Post
BEST BOOKS FOR GIFTING 2015: Vanity Fair

"This is Moody's best novel in many years...a book of irony and wit and heartbreak." --Dwight Garner, New York Times

From the acclaimed Rick Moody, a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes to life in the most unexpected of ways: through his online reviews.

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 mastery ability to push the bounds of the novel.