Big Machine - by Victor Lavalle (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--P. [4] of cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. <p/>Infused with the wonder of a disquieting dream and laced with Victor LaValle's fiendish comic sensibility, <b>Big Machine</b> is a mind-rattling mystery about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Fractures all of our notions of how well-made fiction ought to behave. . .idea-hungry and haywire, too alive and abrasive to be missed. The multicultural novel has come of age -- smashingly." -- <i>Kirkus</i> (starred) <p/>"LaValle is as much wry fabulist as he is dogged allegorist, and his flights of grim fancy are tethered by acute observations. He can be awfully funny, too. [His]devilish fable renders the visible world-of science, social hierarchies, and <i>New York Times</i> headlines-a load of cultish hooey."<br>--<i>Bookforum</i> <p/>"Beautiful." -- <i>Vanity Fair<br></i> <p/>"If Hieronymus Bosch and Lenny Bruce got knocked up by a woman with a large and compassionate heart, they might have brought forth <b>Big Machine</b>. But it is Victor LaValle's peculiar, poetic, rough and funny voice that brings it to us, alive and kicking and irresistible."--Amy Bloom, author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller<i> </i><b>Away<i> <p/></i></b><i>"</i><b>Big Machine i</b>s like nothing I've ever read, incredibly human and alien at the same time. LaValle writes like Gabriel Garcia Marquez mixed with Edgar Allen Poe, but this is even more than that. He's written the first great book of the next America."--Mos Def <p/>"If the literary Gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, and threw in several fistfuls of 21st century attitude, the result would be Victor LaValle. Big Machine is a wonderful, original, and crazy novel." --Anthony Doerr, author of <i>The Shell Collector</i> and<i> About Grace</i><b><br> </b> <p/>"Victor LaValle is one of the finest writers around--puzzling but never abstruse, compassionate but never pitying. With<i> The Ecstatic</i>, he produced one of my favorite novels of the decade, and now, with<i> </i><b>Big Machine</b>, he has produced another: a pristine window into a flawed human soul, but also a daring fantasy through which America and all its troubles come sliding gradually into focus." --Kevin Brockmeier, author of<b><i> </i>A Brief History of the Dead <br></b><br>"Sure to up his critical standing while furthering comparisons to Haruki Murakami, John Kennedy Toole and Edgar Allan Poe. Ricky's intoxicating voice--robust, organic, wily--is perfect for narrating LaValle's high-stakes mashup of thrilling paranormal and Ralph Ellison's <i>Invisible Man</i>, as the fateful porter--something of a modern Odysseus rallied by a team of 'spiritual X-men'--wanders through America's 'messianic hoo-hah.'"--<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Victor LaValle is the author of the short-story collection <i>Slapboxing with Jesus </i>and the novel <i>The Ecstatic</i>, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
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