![]() ![]() It's a book about love and longing, husbands grieving over dying wives, disconnected parents and lost children, sadness and confusion.Ĭonsider just this one gorgeous line: "Love was the hole as well as the thing that repaired the hole." It's sad, pitch-perfect and lovely, and it came from the talking chimp who has fallen in love with a human laboratory assistant. I hope so, because as pulpy and trashy as "The Four Fingers of Death" might sound, it's oddly something sweeter and more profound. Oh, and there's a chimpanzee named Morton who develops the ability to speak as the result of a mad scientist's attempt to reanimate the corpse of his dead wife. And if you need more, both books are nestled in a framing device and apparently written by a former chess prodigy who now deals in the baseball cards of robotically enhanced players. Just try to withhold judgment when I tell you the novel is split into two books: the first about a manned space mission to Mars that goes horribly wrong, and the second about an astronaut's severed arm that returns from Mars and crawls around the desert Southwest strangling people. ![]() I'm afraid that when I do that book reviewer thing and give you the obligatory summary of the plot of "The Four Fingers of Death" by Rick Moody, it will scare off all but the most hardcore of sci-fi geeks, but there's really no way around it. ![]() “The Four Fingers of Death,” by Rick Moody, Little, Brown and Co., 729 pages, $25.99 ![]()
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