6/12/2023 0 Comments The devil all the time book buy![]() With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plot lines into a taut, gothic narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. 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. The spider-handling preacher Roy, and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, are running from the law. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. Willard Russell is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, it follows a cast of riveting and bizarre characters from the end of the Second World War to the 1960s. The Devil All the Time is a hauntingly intense portrait of America and a shattering vision of violence and redemption. ![]() For fans of No Country for Old Men and Natural Born Killers. Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2011: With The Devil All the Time, author Donald Ray Pollock has crafted an exceptionally gritty, twisted page-turner.This follow-up to 2008's Knockemstiff is set in the Midwest during the mid-century, but reads more like a gothic Western. A dark and riveting vision of America from the award-winning author of Knockemstiff. ![]()
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