The Arizona Republic Recommends | The Four Fingers of Death
Changing Hands Bookstore is proud to partner with the Arizona Republic for their monthly "Republic Recommends" selections. This month's exclusive: 25% off a limited number of signed copies of September's pick, The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody.
"A phantasmagorical hellride inspired by the late Slaughterhouse-Five author Kurt Vonnegut, The Four Fingers of Death uses sardonic humor to cushion the impact as Moody meditates on some rather depressing themes, chiefly decay: of the body, the mind, maybe even of a civilization." —Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic
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.
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.
