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Big Machine
Overview
You made a promise in Cedar Rapids in 2002.
Time to honor it.
Ricky Rice is a middle-aged, middling 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 had at some point in their wasted lives heard the Voice: a murmur on the wind, a disembodied shout, a whisper in an empty room that may or may not have been 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 beatific cult housed in a New York City tenement to his near-death in the basement of an Iowa house owned by a man named Murder 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.
Time to honor it.
Ricky Rice is a middle-aged, middling 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 had at some point in their wasted lives heard the Voice: a murmur on the wind, a disembodied shout, a whisper in an empty room that may or may not have been 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 beatific cult housed in a New York City tenement to his near-death in the basement of an Iowa house owned by a man named Murder 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.
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Book details & editions
| ISBN | 0385527985 |
| Publisher | N/A |
| Publication date | August 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 370 pages |
| Reading Options | PDF · EPUB · Mobi |
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