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Big MachineVictor D. LaValle

Big Machine

2009384 pages
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A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.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…

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Editions

6 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2021
    Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781665245616
  • Paperback · English · 2010
    Spiegel & Grau · 384 pages · 9780385527996
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Random House Publishing Group · 9780385530415
  • Other · English · 2011
    Oldcastle Books, Limited · 384 pages · 9781842433645
  • Other · English · 2011
    Oldcastle Books, Limited · 9781842434321
  • Other · English · 2009
    Spiegel & Grau · 9780385527989
Fiction, occult & supernaturalFiction, psychologicalParapsychologistsEx-drug addictsFictionBelief and doubt