The Long Accomplishment, Rick Moody
The Long Accomplishment, Rick Moody
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The Long Accomplishment
A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony

Author: Rick Moody

Narrator: Rick Moody

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2019


Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage—an eventful month-by-month account—in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony.

At this story’s start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is, fully and for the first time in his life, “Yes.”

And so his second marriage begins as he emerges, humbly and with tender hopes, from the wreckage of his past, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles—miscarriages, the deaths of friends, and robberies, just for starters. As Moody has put it, "this is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple, lifting them above their hardships, and the listener is buoyed along with them.

About Rick Moody

Rick Moody is the author of the award-winning memoir The Black Veil, the novels Hotels of North America, The Four Fingers of Death, The Diviners, Purple America, The Ice Storm, Garden State, and multiple collections of short fiction. Moody is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Rhode Island.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on June 18, 2019

More on this astounding memoir when it comes out in August - add it to your to-read stack. It is acutely told, brave, and lyrically stunning.......more

Goodreads review by Kasa on January 16, 2019

Towards the end of this beautiful memoir, Rick Moody goes on at some length about grace and all its implications. Much of this applies to his honest, generous account of the first year spent with his soul mate, his partner in every sense of the word, Laurel. This is a fine example of the difference......more

Goodreads review by Amy on December 05, 2020

I won this book through a giveaway in exchange for an honest review... I don’t really know what to say right now. This is a hard review. I don’t really feel passionately one way or the other...hence the middle of the road rating. It was a very personal account of Moody’s life, which was refreshing. I......more

Goodreads review by M. on January 14, 2019

[URL not allowed] What a pleasure it has been to recently discover the writer Rick Moody, who makes it very hard for anyone to pigeonhole him into one art genre or another. It is even more difficult to write about what interests me most about him. Last week, for example, I spen......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on September 05, 2019

It’s one thing to come to terms with the fact that we’re never going to get another Ice Storm or Demonology out of Rick Moody, but it’s another thing entirely to be asked to sign off on the phrase, “I personally find gourds meaningfully tragicomic and resonant.” Setting aside the redundant evidentia......more