The black veil : a memoir / by Rick Moody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moody, Rick.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moody, Rick--Psychology.

Moody, Rick.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Families.

Psychiatric hospital patients.

Psychology.

United States.

Depressed persons--United States--Biography.

Depressed persons.

Psychiatric hospital patients--United States--Biography.

Moody, Joseph, 1700-1753.

Moody, Joseph.

Moody, Rick--Family.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xii, 323 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Back Bay paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston [Mass.] : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, 2003.

Summary:

"In this widely 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. At once a harrowing personal story and a dazzling exploration of ancestral inheritance, cultural mythology, and the very idea of self, The Black Veil indelibly captures and conveys what it means to be young and confused, older and confused, guilty, lost, and finally healed. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Children, with bright faces, tript merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait 11

The old people of the village came stooping along the street 26

The topic, it might be supposed, was obvious enough 42

Customers came in, as the forenoon advanced, but rather slowly 54

Stooping somewhat and looking on the ground, as is customary with abstracted men 68

The deep pause of flagging spirits, that always follows mirth and wine 76

In his case, however, the symbol had a different import 89

It takes off its face like a mask, and shows the grinning bare skeleton underneath 104

Mr. Hooper, face to face with his congregation, except for the black veil 120

If I had ever once been happy, methinks I could contentedly be shot to-day 137

If it be a sign of mourning, I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough 151

What is this world good for now that we can never be jolly anymore 176

I have suffered woefully from low spirits for some time past 192

Every work, by an artist of celebrity, is hidden behind a veil 211

Had her eyes provoked, or assented to this deed? She had not known it. But, alas! 220

A veil may sometimes be needful, but never a masque 236

There being a heavy rain yesterday, a nest of swallows was washed down the chimney 250

Hither coasters &c. and fishing smacks run in, when a storm is anticipated 271

So far as I am a man of really individual traits, I veil my face 293

"The Minister's Black Veil," / Nathaniel Hawthorne 305.

Notes:

Includes a reading group guide.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-323).

ISBN:

0316739014

9780316739016

OCLC:

52307009