Big Machine Humor a spectator rather than a

a spectator rather than a participant in the tragi-comedy of human existence

and were free from disease and predators

is one of the three thematically linked novels by Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation

gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out-of-context plot lines

loss and queer desire echo across the multiverse

Big Machine Humor a spectator rather than aTitle: Big Machine Author: Victor LaValle ISBN: 9780385527996 Publisher: One World Published: 2010 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Number of Pages: 384 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: A "haunting and fresh" (Los Angeles Times) novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us that "[draws] comparisons to the work of Ralph Ellison and Thomas Pynchon" (The Wall Street Journal) "Big Machine