Big Machine by Victor Lavalle
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...
Like his spiritual forebears, Chester Himes and Nelson Algren, he speaks for the unsung so we can hear their voiceListen -- Cathi Unsworth * The Guardian *
Religion and money are the two great American themes, and in Big Machine LaValle brings them together by creating a world where faith cannot pay its bills and greed is the only force in which anyone can reliably believe -- Laurence Scott * Times Literary Supplement *
Intriguing and wonderfully enjoyable * The Sun *
an elegiac monster of a book that could be the bastard child of The X-Files and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita -- Peter Millar * The Times *
A rich, textured story structured like a crime thriller and told in vivid but unshowy prose. Thematically meaty...recommended * SFX *
Religion and money are the two great American themes, and in Big Machine LaValle brings them together by creating a world where faith cannot pay its bills and greed is the only force in which anyone can reliably believe -- Laurence Scott * Times Literary Supplement *
Intriguing and wonderfully enjoyable * The Sun *
an elegiac monster of a book that could be the bastard child of The X-Files and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita -- Peter Millar * The Times *
A rich, textured story structured like a crime thriller and told in vivid but unshowy prose. Thematically meaty...recommended * SFX *
Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the key to Southeast Queens.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842433645 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842433644 |
| Title | Big Machine |
| Author | Victor Lavalle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Year published | 2011-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Winner of American Book Award 2010, Winner of Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence 2010, Winner of Shirley Jackson Awards: Novel Category 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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