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Big Machine (Random House)

Victor LaValle will be here to read from and sign his new-in-paperback novel Big Machine, one of our staff picks!

"If Hieronymus Bosch and Lenny Bruce got knocked up by a woman with a large and compassionate heart, they might have brought forth Big Machine. But it is Victor LaValle's peculiar, poetic, rough and funny voice that brings it to us, alive and kicking and irresistible." —Amy Bloom

In addition to Big Machine, 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. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, and the key to Southeast Queens.  He was raised in Queens, New York.

Big Machine (Paperback)

By Victor Lavalle

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780385527996
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Spiegel & Grau, 3/2010

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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.

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