The Devil All the Time From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff called powerful remarkable exceptional by the Los Angeles Times comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest
From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff called powerful, remarkable, exceptional by the Los Angeles Times comes a dark and riveting vision of 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 GFrom the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff called powerful, remarkable, exceptional by the Los Angeles Times comes a dark and riveting vision of 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 over tones 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 sacrifi cial blood he pours on his prayer log There s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband and wife team of serial kill ers, 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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Free Read [Biography Book] ¼ The Devil All the Time - by Donald Ray Pollock ✓
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Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff He dropped out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant, and then spent thirty two years employed in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio He graduated from the MFA program at Ohio State University in 2009, and still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy His first book, Knockemstiff, won the 2009 PEN Robert Bingham Fellowship His work has appeared in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou wester, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, Granta, NYTBR, Washington Square, and The Berkeley Fiction Review The Devil All the Time is his first novel.