The Devil All The Time

Description: 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 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.
Title: The Devil All The Time
Barcode: 9780307744869
Publication Date: 7/10/2012