The Four Fingers of Death

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A Back Bay Book
"It's sci-fi as only Rick Moody could write it—by turns touching and outrageous."
—Very Short List
M
ontese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose collection of rare
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 a manned mission to Mars. Nine Americans aboard three space pods 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 biowarfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues.
Only 0 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. Its crawl through the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A Back Bay Book
"It's sci-fi as only Rick Moody could write it—by turns touching and outrageous."
—Very Short List
M
ontese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose collection of rare
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 a manned mission to Mars. Nine Americans aboard three space pods 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 biowarfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues.
Only 0 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. Its crawl through the heartbroken wasteland of civilization is recorded in this stunningly inventive, superbly entertaining novel.
"This is Moody uncorked, slyly going bock to the wordy, toothsome, nineteenfh-century novel, with a science-fiction twist."
—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
"A zesty satire, a sprawling epic with one eye on today's headlines and another eye (bio-metric eye, no doubt) on the future."
—William J. Cobb, Dallas Morning News
"The Four Fingers of Death is entertaining and often poignant, probing the limits of technology, consciousness, and language in the face of grief." —The New Yorker
"Mr. Moody's best writing in years. It is The Ice Storm in space____Masterful, certainly matching, even at times surpassing, Kurt Vonnegut. The Four Fingers of Death is fun to read."
—Michael H. Miller, New York Observer
^^ rick moody'S acclaimed and prizewinning books include the novels Garden State, The Ice Storm, Purple America, and The Diviners, hie lives with his family in Brooklyn.
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