LaValle, V: Big Machine

'Like his spiritual forebears, Chester Himes and Nelson Algren, he speaks for the unsung so we can hear their voice. Listen.' - Cathi Unsworth, The Guardian 'Religion and money are the two great American themes, and in Big Machine LaValle brings them together by creating a world where faith cannot pay its bills and greed is the only force in which anyone can reliably believe.' - Laurence Scott, Times Literary Supplement 'A rich, textured story structured like a crime thriller and told in vivid but unshowy prose. Thematically meaty...recommended.' - SFX 'spectacular...sprawling, fantastical' - Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post 'unruly and entertaining...a monumental dream work' - Ed Park, Los Angeles Times 'a transcendent and provocative book that is wildly original and completely absorbing' - Katherine Tomlinson, California Literary Review 'LaValle employs a sly wit and deadpan humor - Draw[s] comparisons to the work of Ralph Ellison and Thomas Pynchon' - Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal