{"product_id":"the-four-fingers-of-death-rick-moody-9780316118934","title":"The Four Fingers of Death","description":"\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 film, \u003cem\u003eThe Crawling Hand\u003c\/em\u003e. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to 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\u003cp\u003eOnly a 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. It's crawl through the heartbroken wasteland of civilization is recorded in this stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rick Moody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0316118931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316118934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/24\/2011 pg. 24","brand":"Rick Moody","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946445897983,"sku":"9780316118934","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_76fe5d82-c7b5-49cb-bf48-019bbc3f1643.jpg?v=1681513196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-four-fingers-of-death-rick-moody-9780316118934","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}