false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255941130m/6488057.jpg 6488057 3 <p><b>A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us<br></b><br><br>Ricky Rice was as good as invisible: a middling hustler, recovering dope fiend, and traumatized suicide cult survivor running out the string of his life as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter appears, summoning him to the frozen woods of Vermont. There, Ricky is inducted into a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard The Voice: a mysterious murmur on the wind, a disembodied shout, or a whisper in an empty room that may or may not be from God. <br><br>Evoking the disorienting wonder of writers like Haruki Murakami and Kevin Brockmeier, but driven by Victor LaValle’s perfectly pitched comic sensibility BIG MACHINE is a mind-rattling literary adventure about sex, race, and the eternal struggle between faith and doubt.</p> 6679435 11 8 2009 Big Machine: A Novel total:59|5:12|4:18|3:16|2:9|1:4| 59 202 278 22 5 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:24:56 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:16:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 13:08:07 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 10:26:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 6 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:33:14 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 12:26:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 24 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 04:31:50 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 06:28:38 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Aug 13 12:46:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 19:17:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 11:51:20 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 11:53:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 07:49:45 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 07:53:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 12:33:10 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 12:33:57 -0700 2009
A hybrid of low-lifes and high ideals, Big Machine runs on suicide cults and the voice of God taking you straight to the bowels of The Bay and the monsters that lurk without and within. Hard as a gun-muzzle to the jaw, soft as the caress of an angel's wing...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:29:28 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 08:31:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 16:55:23 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 10:21:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 06:05:20 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 06:28:19 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 09:57:39 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:42:54 -0700 2009
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