While still in his twenties, Rick Moody found that a decade of alcohol, drugs and other indulgences had left him stranded in a depression so severe that he feared for his life. The road of excess led him not to the palace of wisdom but rather to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's least exalted boroughs.
The Black Veil is Rick Moody's account of that debilitating passage in his life. Anyone who has ever felt his or her own psychological footing slip, even briefly, will find this story of breakdown and return both harrowing and heartbreaking.
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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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