Big Machine Paperback / softback
by VICTOR LAVALLE
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Ricky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind.
The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York.
Until one day a letter arrives, reminding him of a vow he once made and summoning him to Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom to fulfill it. There, Ricky is inducted into a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom have at some point in their wasted lives heard the Voice: a murmur on the wind, a disembodied shout, a whisper in an empty room.
All these may or may not have been messages from God.
Their mission is to find the Voice - and figure out what it wants. Big Machine takes us from Ricky's childhood in a matrilineal cult housed in a New York City tenement to his near-death experience in the basement of an Iowa house owned by a man named Murder. And to his final confrontation with an army of true believers - and with his own past. 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. Big Machine named: �American Book Award 2010 �Shirley Jackson Award 2009 - Winner - Best Novel �10 Best Books of 2009 - Publisher's Weekly �Favorite Fiction of 2009 - Chicago Tribune �Best Science Fiction of 2009 - Los Angeles Times �Best Science Fiction & Fantasy - Washington Post �Most Valuable Fiction Book of 2009 - The Nation �Ernest J.
Gaines Award for Literary Excellence 2010 Winner
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
- Publication Date:24/03/2011
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- ISBN:9781842433645
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
- Publication Date:24/03/2011
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- ISBN:9781842433645