The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony

✍ Scribed by Rick Moody

• Book ID: 100650498
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio; Holt & Company, Henry
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 187 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Holt & Company, Henry, 2019.
• ISBN: 1627798439

✦ Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

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Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm , shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriagean eventful month-by-month accountin *The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony.*

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** At this storys 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 troublesmiscarriages, 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 Moodys 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 listener is buoyed along with them.

✦ Subjects

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary