The winner in the novel category for the Shirley Jackson Awards is a book that was published with a modest 10,000 copy first printing, but went on to be chosen as one of the Top Ten Titles of 2009 by Publishers Weekly, Big Machine by Victor LaValle. Just before it was published last year, the Wall Street Journal predicted that LaValle’s third novel would be his breakout, but said it faced, “major hurdles in finding a broad audience [because] it has always been difficult to market black literary fiction.”

Big Machine: A Novel Victor LaValle Retail Price: $25.00 Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau – (2009-08-11) ISBN / EAN: 0385527985 / 9780385527989

The book was released in trade paperback in March.

Big Machine: A Novel Victor LaValle Retail Price: $15.00 Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau – (2010-03-09) ISBN / EAN: 0385527993 / 9780385527996

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