{"product_id":"the-black-veil-9780316739016","title":"The Black Veil","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this astonishingly inventive book, Moody tells the story of his collapse and recovery in an inspired journey through what it means to be young and confused, older and confused, guilty, lost, and healed.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his early 20s, a lifetime of excess left Rick Moody suddenly stranded in a depression so profound that he feared for his life. A stay in a psychiatric hospital was just the first step out of mental illness. In this astonishingly inventive book, Moody tells the story of his collapse and recovery in an inspired journey through what it means to be young and confused, older and confused, guilty, lost, and healed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Woven through his own story, Moody also traces his family's paternal line, looking for clues to his own melancholy -- in particular to one ancestor, Reverend Joseph Moody, about whom Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote an archetypal story of shame called \u003ci\u003eThe Minister's Black Veil\u003c\/i\u003e. In a brilliant display that is no less than a literary tour de force, Moody ties past and present, family legend, and serious scholarship into a book that will draw comparisons not just to recent memoirs by Dave Eggers and Martin Amis but to forebears like Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316739016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.29h x 5.59w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/25\/2003 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rick Moody","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636326822044,"sku":"9780316739016","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d90afd0e-feda-41e2-a4d0-6b7a4b33e9dd.jpg?v=1603841616","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-black-veil-9780316739016","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}