Ring Of Brightest Angels Around Heaven - Softcover

A superb collection of short stories by the young American author of THE ICE STORM. Whether wondering what would have happened if James Dean had survived his car wreck and anonymously joined a garage band for the Sixties, or tracking the desperate lives of East Village refugees. Moody writes with rare empathy and profound sensitivity. (ESQUIRE)

Rick Moody's short takes are mood pieces. He paints word picture of the everyday American nightmare somewhere between Hopper and Rauschenberg. These shards of inconsequential living are nicely constructed, elegantly and wittily written... A clever chap, Mo (THE TIMES)

Moody gives us a fascinating study of alienation in American society... Hauntingly written and atmospheric. (GAY TIMES)

Rick Moody's stories compellingly map the loneliness of private experience and explore the many ways that people give voice to that experience. 'The Preliminary Notes' takes the form of a deposition in which an investigator recounts the unpleasant facts he has learned about himself since he began recording his wife's phone calls; a college student pours out his delusions in a term paper in 'The Apocalypse of Bob Paisner'. The autobiography of a young writer comes housed in the footnotes to a bibliography in 'Primary Sources' The title piece, awarded the Aga Khan Prize for the best fiction through the netherworld of contemporary New York and was the first novella to be published uncut in THE PARIS REVIEW since Philip Roth's 'Goodbye Angel'.