Rick Moody's dystopian zombie sci-fi space epic The Four Fingers of Death.
by Alison Hallett
TAKE A DEEP BREATH before trying to explain the plot of Rick Moody's The Four Fingers of Death—there's a lot going on. Moody gleefully rolls around in sci-fi and horror genre conventions, like your dog in a particularly choice bit of roadkill, and a book-within-a-book structure even adds "post-modern literary fiction" to our decomposing pile of metaphorical genre casualties. The book's introduction is provided by one Montese Crandall, a writer who explains the source of his style as the "strategic…
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