EBOOK Devil All the Time

From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiffcalled &';powerful, remarkable, exceptional&' by the Los Angeles Timescomes a dark and riveting vision of 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 overtones 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 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. 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.