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From the acclaimed writer of Knockemstiff-called "powerful, tremendous, exceptional" by the Los Angeles Times-comes a dark and riveting eye-sight of America that provides literary enjoyment in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a book that marries the twisted level of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overshades of Flannery O'Connor at her most haunting. Occur rural southern Ohio and Western world Virginia, The Devil All the Time practices a cast of compelling and bizarre people 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 partner, Charlotte, from an agonizing fatality by tumor 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 wipe outers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to picture and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, working from regulations. And caught in the middle of all of this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who matures to be always a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a tight narrative that will leave viewers astonished and deeply transferred. Along with his first book, he shows himself a get better at storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.
