
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, November 20, 1994                   TAG: 9412060121
SECTION: BOOKS                    PAGE: F4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: REVIEWED BY NEIL HARVEY
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

IMAGINE IF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN SET 'THE BRADY BUNCH' IN AN ICE STORM...

The Ice Storm. By Rick Moody. Little, Brown. $19.95.

\ Several critics have compared Rick Moody's new novel "The Ice Storm" to the works of John Cheever and John Irving and, especially, John Updike; Moody has even claimed that in writing the book he was responding to Updike's "Rabbit" series. But as I read the novel, again and again I couldn't help thinking: "The Ice Storm" is like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" rewritten by Armistead Maupin as an episode of "The Brady Bunch."\ Please see microfilm for complete text.

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