Description
A "haunting and fresh" (Los Angeles Times) novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us that "[draws] comparisons to the work of Ralph Ellison and Thomas Pynchon" (The Wall Street Journal) "Big Machine is like nothing I've ever read, incredibly human and alien at the same time. Victor LaValle writes like Gabriel García Márquez mixed with Edgar Allan Poe."--Mos Def
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlist in a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God. Infused with the wonder of a disquieting dream and laced with Victor LaValle's fiendish comic sensibility, Big Machine is a mind-rattling mystery about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us. Winner of the American Book Award and the Shirley Jackson Award
Author: Victor Lavalle
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 03/09/2010
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780385527996
ISBN10: 0385527993
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Thrillers | General
- Fiction | Horror | General
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlist in a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God. Infused with the wonder of a disquieting dream and laced with Victor LaValle's fiendish comic sensibility, Big Machine is a mind-rattling mystery about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us. Winner of the American Book Award and the Shirley Jackson Award
Author: Victor Lavalle
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 03/09/2010
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780385527996
ISBN10: 0385527993
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Thrillers | General
- Fiction | Horror | General
About the Author
Victor LaValle is the author of the short-story collection Slapboxing with Jesus and the novel The Ecstatic, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.