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<p><P>On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fiction available in handsome new paperback editions.</p><h3>David Kipen</h3><p><P>Certain metaphors ought to come with expiration dates, just like milk or medicine. Rick Moody's third novel, <i>Purple America</i>, is an ambitious, funny, beautifully written book whose prevailing metaphor -- the faltering promise of the nuclear age and with it the decline of the American nuclear family -- has begun to curdle. The military and civilian uses of atomic physics have been with us for only half a century, but somehow their fictional uses, irresistible over the years to numberless writers and filmmakers, already seem as inert as a spent fuel rod. <P>This subtle handicap never keeps <i>Purple America</i> from succeeding as an uncommonly empathetic fugue of voices emerging from what's left of the Raitliffe family of Fenwick, Conn., during one night in 1992. The novel starts with awkward, stammering, prematurely middle-aged Hex Raitliffe bathing his paralyzed, vaguely senile mother, Billie, in the upstairs bathroom of her once-stylish home.

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Author

Moody, Rick

Publisher

Boston: Little, Brown

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316559775

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.46 / 5 (84 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14