The Black Veil A Memoir with Digressions

In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less exalted boroughs. An inspired portrait of what it means to be young and confused, older and confused, guilty, lost, and finally healed. - At once a harrowing personal story and a dazzling exploration of ancestral inheritance, cultural mythology, and the very idea of self. - THE BLACK VEIL appeared on hardcover bestseller lists around the country, including the San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe bestseller lists. - Moody's five works of fiction-as well as the film based on his novel The Ice Storm-have won him an admiring and growing readership.

Rick Moody is the author of three novels, as well as two collections of short fiction. He is a past recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Moody has contributed fiction and essays to many major publications and his work has been widely anthologized

Preface	p. 3
Children, with bright faces, tript merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait	p. 11
The old people of the village came stooping along the street	p. 26
The topic, it might be supposed, was obvious enough	p. 42
Customers came in, as the forenoon advanced, but rather slowly	p. 54
Stooping somewhat and looking on the ground, as is customary with abstracted men	p. 68
The deep pause of flagging spirits, that always follows mirth and wine	p. 76
In his case, however, the symbol had a different import	p. 89
It takes off its face like a mask, and shows the grinning bare skeleton underneath	p. 104
Mr. Hooper, face to face with his congregation, except for the black veil	p. 120
If I had ever once been happy, methinks I could contentedly be shot to-day	p. 137
If it be a sign of mourning, I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough	p. 151
What is this world good for now that we can never be jolly anymore	p. 176
I have suffered woefully from low spirits for some time past	p. 192
Every work, by an artist of celebrity, is hidden behind a veil	p. 211
Had her eyes provoked, or assented to this deed? She had not known it. But, alas!	p. 220
A veil may sometimes be needful, but never a masque	p. 236
There being a heavy rain yesterday, a nest of swallows was washed down the chimney	p. 250
Hither coasters &c. and fishing smacks run in, when a storm is anticipated	p. 271
So far as I am a man of really individual traits, I veil my face	p. 293
"The Minister's Black Veil,"	p. 305
Selected Bibliography	p. 319
Acknowledgments	p. 325
A Reading Group Guide	p. 329
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