'One of the wittiest books about family life ever written' Guardian 'A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book' Jeffrey Eugenides 'A blackly funny and beautifully written novel' Sunday Times Suburban New England, and the Hood family are about to wish they'd stayed home.... 1973 - 'The last year of the sixties' as the author describes it. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years the local families gather for a party - the highlight of which is the wife-swapping 'key game' - and for two couples this supposedly harmless piece ...
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'One of the wittiest books about family life ever written' Guardian 'A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book' Jeffrey Eugenides 'A blackly funny and beautifully written novel' Sunday Times Suburban New England, and the Hood family are about to wish they'd stayed home.... 1973 - 'The last year of the sixties' as the author describes it. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years the local families gather for a party - the highlight of which is the wife-swapping 'key game' - and for two couples this supposedly harmless piece of liberal-minded entertainment spells permanent disaster. Astutely acerbic, painfully funny, The Ice Storm is an astonishing novel of the decade that taste forgot.
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Add this copy of The Ice Storm to cart. $8.92, good condition, Sold by Orion Tech rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arlington, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Little Brown.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Like New dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine copy. 8vo 8 1/2"x 5 3/8" blue backstrip w/ yellow paper boards; gilt lettering on spine; 279 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $19.95 on front flap, author photo by Meredith Saxon on rear. quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides, A.M. Homes & Donald Antrim on back cover. jacket design by John Gall.
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Add this copy of The Ice Storm to cart. $14.00, very good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Little Brown.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x1x8; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Light soiling on rear hinge. Previous owners name & date on front pastedown. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
Add this copy of The Ice Storm to cart. $19.00, very good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Little Brown.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x1x8; First printing signed by Moody on the title page. Crisp, unread, unmarked copy. The binding is tight, upper corners lightly bumped. Touch of soiling to bottom fore-edges. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 279 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the TITLE page. NOT inscribed, NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. NOT Book Club. Securely wrapped, dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box. Full # line starting with a 1. Fine/Fine
I loved this book. The story is very smart the way the characters are developed and come together. I would recommend this highly. Can't wait to read other books by Rick Moody.
HesterPrine08
Oct 24, 2008
Misery loves family
In the Ice Storm Moody gives us the typical suburban family from the 70's. The father is a lech, mom is unhappy, the daughter has already developed a reputation and the son is unbalanced. In one night the family will fall apart. While mom and dad attend a key party at the neighbor's, the children are left to their own devices. The underlying theme to this story is sexual tension and how its freezing each family member out of the others lives.
Braniff747
Apr 26, 2007
More cultural refs than a Billy Joel song!
This book had more references than that famous Billy Joel song "We didn't start the fire"--Duraflame logs, Family Affair, Jonathan Livingston Seagull--from the beginning to the end. As one who had heard about the movie (and who was a youngster himself in the early 1970s) I tried to keep an open mind.
I think I did, although I wish Moody had paid more attention to the story and the characters than to the cultural references. Do we really have have it shoved through our eyes and into our minds that no one enjoyed the swinging and other pleasures associated with the key parties? I'm not a prude but I didn't to be hammered and reminded that no one who participated in such events was very happy.
As for the rating, I'd give it a three-and-a-half stars. For all of my critical comments, I'll have to admit that many members of my family went through similar anguish in the early 1970s. Moreover, my mother was a BIG Jonathan Livingston Seagull freak.
