Donald Ray Pollock
Hardcover | Pages: 261 pages Rating: 4.11 | 15140 Users | 2103 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Devil All the Time |
| ISBN: | 038553504X (ISBN13: 9780385535045) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard Russell, Snooks Snyder, Charlotte Russell |
| Literary Awards: | Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Romans étrangers (2012), Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2011), Deutscher Krimi Preis for 3. Platz International (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror (2011), Society of Midland Authors Award Nominee for Adult Fiction (2012) Prix Jan Michalski Nominee for Longlist (2012) |
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Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of 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.Mention Out Of Books The Devil All the Time
| Title | : | The Devil All the Time |
| Author | : | Donald Ray Pollock |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 261 pages |
| Published | : | July 12th 2011 by Doubleday (first published 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Horror. Mystery. Crime. Gothic. Southern Gothic. Historical. Historical Fiction. Thriller |
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Ratings: 4.11 From 15140 Users | 2103 ReviewsWeigh Up Out Of Books The Devil All the Time
Hey, parents, having problems getting you kids to behave in church? Let them spend a Sunday with Willard Russell. Willard isnt a preacher, and he doesnt have one of those big mall-like mega churches. What Willard has is a log in the woods. Thats right, a damn log in the woods. A prayer log if you will, and hes hung up some crosses around it, and he makes sure that his son Arvin is out there all the time praying with all hes got. Dont mind all that dried blood and animal bones. Willard thinks theDonald Ray Pollock wrote this book using many characters, including preachers. There are at least three of'em in The Devil All The Time. One good old preacher is dying but won't admit it for nothing. The other two ... Well, they done got themselves into just the kind of trouble Mr.Pollock likes to write about. From the Bible we find in Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers ... " No. Wait a minute. That one doesn't apply here. There ain't no peacemakers in Knockemstiff, Ohio. so let's try
From the blurb:From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiffcalled powerful, remarkable, exceptional by the Los Angeles Timescomes 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 Stones Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery OConnor at her most haunting. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil
Appalachian SpringCombine the Heartland evangelism of the Origin of the Brunists with the Appalachian haplessness of The Glass Castle, then season with a few homicides and sexual perversions as in American Psycho and you have The Devil All the Time, an everyday tale of disenchantment with the land of opportunity and its principles.The main action takes place in the hill country of Southeastern Ohio. The hamlet of Knockemstiff, a real place, is ground zero. The place names are telling.
Alone at last with the ghosts of his childhood.The Devil all the Time is an ugly, uncompromising book. Donald Ray Pollock has created an atmosphere that is dark, unrelenting, and devoid of hope. I would say that he exaggerates the atmosphere of the parts of southeast Ohio and West Virginia that he writes about, but he has lived there all his life, so who I am to say? I do live in central Ohio and have all of my life, and my belief is that there is a segment of society in that area that probably
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time. Interested in reading Mitchells #1 pick so far this year? Are you sure youre ready for the darkness that is the black hole of his heart? Positive?????? Alrighty then, here goes . . . When Ron 2.0 recommended The Devil All the Time to me I told him to f*&^ off did what I normally do added it to my TBR where it would promptly be
Surely not... but it's true.... a movie version is on the way this year! If I was some kind of major Pollock fan here is the place I would go squeeeee squeeeeee.So : squeeeee squeeeee!!And now back to the original review.***********Theres chick litDick litMick litFlick litTrick litSick litQuick litAnd nowHick lit! Well, yes, an affectionate term which I learned from one of the various great reviews of this novel on Goodreads, which probably doesnt need another rave review, you all got the
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