Long Accomplishment

[A] moving funny hauntingly brilliant memoir about marriage. —Caroline Leavitt The San Francisco Chronicle Rick Moody the award-winning author of The Ice Storm shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage in this eventful month-by-month accountAt 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.