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Doubleday
July 2011
On Sale: July 12, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 038553504X
EAN: 9780385535045
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In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stoneβs Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overΒtones of Flannery OβConnor 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. Thereβs Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who canβt save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifiΒcial blood he pours on his βprayer log.β Thereβs Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killΒers, who troll Americaβs highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. Thereβs 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 Charlotteβs 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.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - July 26, 2011
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