![]() As a result, he was issued his first baseball card, by the venerable manufacturer of same, Topps, Inc. Take, for instance, this snippet from his most recent novel, The Four Fingers of Death, about a baseball card collector: “The following year, because of minor league buzz, McClintock was brought up to the bigs as a platoon player for the Mexico City team. His prose is finely tuned, and he has a keen ear for the rhythm of language, which, along with rich and sometimes quirky descriptive detail, helps to create an immersive experience for the reader. ![]() He is the recipient of honors that include the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize. ![]() Moody is also the author of four other novels, a collection of short fiction and two nonfiction books. The Ice Storm became a critically acclaimed best-seller and was later made into a feature film directed by Ang Lee. ![]() While writing his breakout novel The Ice Storm, set in 1973, Rick Moody allowed himself to listen only to music popular in that year, and he mostly confined his reading to popular books as well. ![]()
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