In this searing, brilliantly 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.
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The Black Veil is not an easy book to read. Moody often circulates obsessively around his topics, and the veil of the book's title acts as a metaphor for Moody's own writing and personal outlook on life. It is "a veiled tale, a shadowed lineage" which is at its best in its early brilliant evocation of a tortured adolescence and brilliant evocation of his relationship with his father, and at its worse when it sinks into portentous discussion of post-structuralist literary theory and psychoanalytic theories of melancholia. The Black Veil will not convince sceptics that Moody is anything other than an angst-ridden master of self-indulgence, but it repays close attention as the work of a difficult but often brilliant chronicler of the modern American mind. –-Jerry Brotton
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