Description: "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." -Kirkus(starred) "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 worldof science, social hierarchies, andNew York Timesheadlinesa load of cultish hooey." --Bookforum "Beautiful." -Vanity Fair "If Hieronymus Bosch and Lenny Bruce got knocked up by a woman with a large and compassionate heart, they might have brought forthBig 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, author of theNew York TimesbestsellerAway "Big Machine is 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 "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 ofThe Shell CollectorandAbout Grace "Victor LaValle is one of the finest writers around-puzzling but never abstruse, compassionate but never pitying. WithThe Ecstatic, he produced one of my favorite novels of the decade, and now, withBig Machine, 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 ofA Brief History of the Dead "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'sInvisible Man, as the fateful porter-something of a modern Odysseus rallied by a team of 'spiritual X-men'-wanders through America's 'messianic hoo-hah.'"-Publishers Weekly, starred

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