by Rick Moody · Llibres de l'Índex · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495317278
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«La tempesta de gel» is the novel by Rick Moody, published in 2001 by Llibres de l'Índex in paperback (252 pages, in Catalan).
The action is set in 1973: an unusual ice storm hits a residential neighbourhood and exposes the tensions of its residents. Rick Moody explores emotional repression and how hard it is to say what one feels. The work gave rise to Ang Lee's film awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
It belongs to the collection «Narrativa contemporània» (no. 1). It was Rick Moody's second novel and his first work translated into Catalan.
For readers of contemporary fiction who want to read in Catalan the novel on which Ang Lee's film was based.
Hiram Frederick Moody III is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into the film The Ice Storm. Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers and critics alike.
