Random House
September 2012
On Sale: August 21, 2012
432 pages ISBN: 1400069866 EAN: 9781400069866 Kindle: B005DXOP4Q Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident.
It also has a very, very old one.
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker,
working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the
surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in
Queens, New York. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t
seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite
square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his
first night, he’s visited by a terrifying creature with the
body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills
him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no
delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil
roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies
three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an
octogenarian schizophrenic who’s been on the ward for
decades and knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African
immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send
alarms to the outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage
girl who acts as the group’s enforcer. Battling the
pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they
try to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the
Devil die?
The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the
compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle’s radiant
fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship
with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, it’s a
thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about
friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.
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