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Title: Moody's Best Book
Review: This is Moody's best, most engaging book. Though it is also his most difficult and slippery. I think Moody at his finest--in The Ice Storm, the short stories "The Grid," "Demonology," "Phrase Book," and "Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven"--is probably the best, most genuinley serious American writer going. A lot of his work, however, lets form take over (some of the stories from Demonology are tired experiments). This book, however, formally beautiful, is deeply sad and authentic from start to finish. I think it compares well to Speak, Memory, the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge and Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. And I'll tell where the bad reviews are coming from (both in periodicals and by customers): this book is smarter than most people.
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