{"product_id":"the-four-fingers-of-death-paperback","title":"The Four Fingers of Death - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRick Moody\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMontese 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Crawling Hand\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Four Fingers of Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse-Five\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRick Moody\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia Universities. He is the author of four previous novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Four Fingers of Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePurple America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ice Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGarden State\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBest American Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 752\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 13, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762371723552,"sku":"9780316118934","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/555a3177397a530c70689b04cdddfc6f.webp?v=1780220352","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-four-fingers-of-death-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}