Following the Fall-Out
Alexander Star
- Purple America by Rick Moody
Flamingo, 298 pp, £16.99, March 1998, ISBN 0 00 225687 8
Like much of Rick Moody’s previous work, Purple America charts the lives of the ‘slovenly, affluent’ young. It’s not an especially good life. Moody’s characters are distinctly unhappy, unformed, unable to proceed with their lives in anything like a reasonable way. Instead, they gradually succumb to a set of local problems. When the logic of crisis is put in motion, the outlook further darkens. In Moody’s novels, to be born is a crime, and to grow up compounds the offence. The enclosed residences of American affluence are under a curse – nature and neuroses will contrive to bring them low.
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Vol. 20 No. 6 · 19 March 1998 » Alexander Star » Following the Fall-Out (print version)
pages 22-23 | 2514 words