The Ice Storm Av Rick Moody

<p><b>''One of the wittiest books about family life ever written'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>''A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book'' <i>Jeffrey Eugenides </i><br></b><br><b>''A blackly funny and beautifully written novel'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br>Suburban New England, and the Hood family are about to wish they''d stayed home....<br><br>1973 - ''The last year of the sixties'' as the author describes it. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years the local families gather for a party - the highlight of which is the wife-swapping ''key game'' - and for two couples this supposedly harmless piece of liberal-minded entertainment spells permanent disaster.<br>Astutely acerbic, painfully funny, <i>The Ice Storm </i>is an astonishing novel of the decade that taste forgot.</p>