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The Four Fingers of Death

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
752 Seiten
Englisch
Little Brown and Companyerschienen am13.07.2011
Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror film, The Crawling Hand. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues.Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the Arizona desert. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. It's crawl through the heartbroken wasteland of civilization is recorded in this stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel.mehr
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KlappentextMontese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror film, The Crawling Hand. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues.Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the Arizona desert. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. It's crawl through the heartbroken wasteland of civilization is recorded in this stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-316-11893-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2011
Erscheinungsdatum13.07.2011
Seiten752 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 141 mm, Höhe 210 mm, Dicke 50 mm
Gewicht682 g
Artikel-Nr.10282136
Rubriken
GenreSF/Fantasy HC

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
"[A] comic tour de force...Moody is at his most daring and arresting." -- BookForum "Moody's powers of invention, his ease in his own prose, his ability to develop interesting characters--in short, his enormous gifts as a writer--are on full display here. And when he wants to write a gorgeous paragraph, he delivers as you know he can, even when he's still spoofing." -- The New York Times Book Review "A grab bag of sardonic fun." -- The Dallas Morning News "Moody's foremost accomplishment...Moves with unapologetic swagger, as it flaunts the extremes of storytelling." -- Bookslut "As pulpy... as The Four Fingers of Death might sound, it's oddly something sweeter and more profound." -- Associated Press "Comic, grim, tender and masterful." -- Bloomberg "Sci-fi as only Moody could write it--in turns touching and outrageous." -- "Very Short List," The Observer "700-plus pages of wacky, wonderful imaginings." -- More "Entertaining and often poignant." -- The New Yorkermehr

Autor

Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia Universities. He is the author of four previous novels: The Four Fingers of Death, Purple America, The Ice Storm, and Garden State, as well as an award-winning memoir and multiple collections of short fiction. Moody is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.