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The Four Fingers of Death
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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 classic,
. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of 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 vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally -- a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives.
is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like
,
, and
.
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“It may not be the best book of all time, but I remember it as silly and super fun and kind of creepy”
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“From the crazy movie it's based on to the amazing space scenes, this book took me to all sorts of places I never knew I wanted to go but I loved every pulpy minute of the strange trip.<br/><br/>QUOTE: "Upon the advent of the digital age, as you know, writers who went on and on and on just didn't last. You couldn't read all that nonsense on a screen. Fragmentation became the one true way. Fragmentation offered a point-and-click interface. Additionally, this strategic reduction blurred the line between poetry and prose, which is where I, Montese Crandall, come into the story. I, Montese Crandall, rely heavily on such strategies as alliteration, condensation, the strange, ghostly echo of metrical feet, iambs and dactyls, spondees and amphibrachs. For example, here's a pair of amphibrachs (unstressed, stressed, unstressed) that might very well summarize my entire output: romantic objective . The phrase does have a fine euphony."”
About Rick Moody
was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia Universities. He is the author of four previous novels:
,
,
, and
, 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
,
, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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