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The Four Fingers of Death

A Novel

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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, "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 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. ... more

About Author

THE FOUR FINGERS OF DEATH is Rick Moody's ninth book. He has received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY.

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The Four Fingers of Death by, Rick Moody
Little Brown and Company
Category:
FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
Format:
HARDCOVER BOOK
Publish Date:
7/28/2010
Price:
$25.99/$31.99
ISBN:
9780316118910
Pages:
736
Size:
6" x 9-1/4"

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