The long accomplishment a memoir of hope and struggle in matrimony Moody, Rick creator author. text biography Biography. Autobiographies. nyu 2019 2019 First edition. monographic eng print 306 pages ; 22 cm Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage, an eventful month-by-month account in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony. At this story's start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question "Would you like to be in a committed relationship?" is, fully and for the first time in his life, "Yes." And so his second marriage begins as he emerges, humbly and with tender hopes, from the wreckage of his past, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles, miscarriages, the deaths of friends, and robberies, just for starters. As Moody has put it, "this is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists, but in which they are also in love." To Moody's astonishment, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple, lifting them above their hardships, and the reader is buoyed along with them. Rick Moody. n-us--- Moody, Rick Marriage Authors, American 20th century Biography Moody, Rick Authors, American Marriage 1900-1999 fast PS3563.O5537 Z46 2019 813/.54 B 9781627798440 1627798447 2018044743 pda,print PUL 181001 20250318222501.8 in00004151387 eng