The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two fam...

Captures the tale of four twenty-something, Generation X youths who suddenly are given a ''wake-up call'' and are forced to take on responsibilty and enter the real world once and for all. Reprint. Tour. PW. NYT.

Purple America begins in a bathtub and ends in Long Island Sound. Inbetween, Rick Moody's latest novel explores the landscape of a family in crisis. Dexter(Hex) Raitliffe, a freelance publicist, returns home to care for his mother, Bi...