The Devil All the Time
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Donald Ray Pollock
Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert PattinsonA dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting.Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.
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Author
Donald Ray Pollock
Pages
272
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2011-07-12
ISBN
0385535058 9780385535052
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"Filth and grime cover every aspect of this backwoods piece of Americana. The disturbingly graphic detail into which Pollock dives headfirst is always visceral without ever feeling gratuitous.
The characters are all very well fleshed out, and the plot never feels convenient or forced, with each twist feeling wholly earned. And its ever-present religious symbolism is so naturally instilled and blended with its themes of family and justice."
"Dark. Page turner."
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Amanda duncan
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