The devil all the time : a novel / Donald Ray Pollock.

The devil all the time : a novel / Donald Ray Pollock.

First edition.

9780385535045
038553504X
9780385535052
0385535058
9780307744869
0307744868

New York : Doubleday, [2011]

©2011

English

261 pages ; 25 cm

PS3616.O5694 D48 2011

813/.6

"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 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"--Jacket.

"Donald Ray Pollock, ..., made his literary debut in 2008 with the critically acclaimed story collection Knockemstiff ... he holds MFA from Ohio State University"--Jkt.
Author is alumnus of the OSU Dept. of English Creative Writing Program.

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