Purple America: a novel
Hex Raitliffe's family is fissioning. His ailing and elderly mother has lately been abandoned by his stepfather, and Hex has been summoned home to tangle not only with adult responsibilities, but with painful memories of the past. Drinking isn't helping. The romantic uncertainties of adolescence, in the person of one Jane Ingersoll, only muddle things more. And confronting his stepfather, who's mired in a crisis of his own at the dilapidated nuclear power plant down the coast, is definitely a mistake. Over the course of a single incendiary night, Hex, his mother, his stepfather -- and a cast including ghosts of family and friends past and present -- will discover the devastating uncertainty principles of family.
Cast in a brilliant series of interknit voices, Purple America explores the profound connections between the forces that bind both family and the society in which familial love is played out.
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Grouping Title | purple america |
Grouping Author | moody rick |
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Last Grouping Update | 2018-05-02 04:21:37AM |
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display_description | A son is tasked with an impossible decision in this poignant, astutely observed portrait of a family in crisis from the author of The Ice Storm While visiting his mother, Billie, who suffers from a degenerative neurological disease that has left her paralyzed and unable to speak, Dexter "Hex" Raitliffe learns that his stepfather, Billie's husband and caretaker, has left her. Alone and incapable of living on her own, Billie makes an unfathomable request of Hex: to assist her in committing suicide. Perpetually indecisive, paralyzed by self-doubt, and hindered by an unshakable stutter, Hex sets out to confront his stepfather, only to find himself facing off against his own struggles-with intimacy and alcoholism-along the way. Back in the suburbs of his youth, Hex experiences the lull of nostalgia as well as the sting of painful memories like his father's death as he tries to reconcile his mother's fate and his own wavering identity. Author Rick Moody evokes this singular setting with stunning clarity. Profoundly tragic yet punctuated by moments of hilarity, Purple America is a searing gaze into one family's fragile, chaotic heart. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author's personal collection. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Care of the sick -- Fiction, Caregivers -- Fiction, Domestic fiction, Electronic books, Families -- Fiction, Mothers and sons -- Fiction, Paraplegics -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Purple America : a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Purple America : a novel / Rick Moody, Purple America [electronic resource] Moody, Rick. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Purple America : | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Care of the sick, Caregivers, Electronic books, Families, Mothers and sons, Paraplegics |