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The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock

By Donald Ray Pollock

Release Date: 2011-07-12

Genre: Literary Fiction

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Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson

A 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 Stoneā€™s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overĀ­tones of Flannery Oā€™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. Thereā€™s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who canā€™t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifiĀ­cial blood he pours on his ā€œprayer log.ā€ Thereā€™s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killĀ­ers, who troll Americaā€™s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. Thereā€™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 Charlotteā€™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.

The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock

By Donald Ray Pollock

Release Date: 2011-07-12

Genre: Literary Fiction

4.5 (484 ratings)
Read Download
Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson

A 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 Stoneā€™s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overĀ­tones of Flannery Oā€™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. Thereā€™s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who canā€™t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifiĀ­cial blood he pours on his ā€œprayer log.ā€ Thereā€™s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killĀ­ers, who troll Americaā€™s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. Thereā€™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 Charlotteā€™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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