The Black Veil Author:Rick Moody In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less exalted boroughs. An inspired portrait of what it means to be young and confused, older and conf... more »used, guilty, lost, and finally healed.« less