The Black Veil

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• The Moody blues

  The Black Veil by Rick Moody 323pp, Faber, £16.99 From its stuttering, quietly urgent beginning to its grandly hyperbolic final sentences, Rick Moody's first full-length work of non-fiction is designed to wrongfoot you, to circumvent your immediate r ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Me, myself and I

  The Black Veil by Rick Moody Faber £16.99, pp323 You can't say that Rick Moody doesn't warn you. His memoir comes with a preface: 'Readers in search of a tidy well-organised life in these pages, a life of kisses bestowed or novels written, may be sur ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Definitely an unusual auto-biography, and that's pretty much what makes it interesting. Otherwise, unless you're a big Moody fan, try one of his novels, which are much easier going. The Diviners for example.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 288 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0571200567
• ISBN-13: 9780571200566
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2002
• Also available as: Paperback

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