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Rick Moody on tragedy, survival, and hope

Rick Moody's new book is a collection of three novellas that explore the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the American psyche. Rick Moody's new book is a collection of three novellas that explore the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the American psyche. (Tina Fineberg for the Boston Globe)
By Rob Verger
Globe Correspondent / June 5, 2007

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More than five years after 9/11, Rick Moody has written a book that indirectly explores the effects of those attacks on the American psyche. The book, "Right Livelihoods," is a collection of three novellas. In the first novella, "The Albertine Notes," 50 square blocks of Manhattan have been destroyed by an explosion. A new street drug flourishes ... (Full article: 857 words)

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