EBOOK Devil in Silver
Opis
A Novel
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review *; The Washington Post *; Publishers WeeklyNew 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.Praise for The Devil in Silver &';A fearless exploration of America&'s heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act.&'The Washington Post &';LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner. . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious.&'Los Angeles Times &';It&'s simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.&'The New York Times Book Review &';Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America&'s inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.&'The Boston Globe &';LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist.&'The New RepublicFrom the Hardcover edition.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review *; The Washington Post *; Publishers WeeklyNew 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.Praise for The Devil in Silver &';A fearless exploration of America&'s heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act.&'The Washington Post &';LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner. . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious.&'Los Angeles Times &';It&'s simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.&'The New York Times Book Review &';Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America&'s inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.&'The Boston Globe &';LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist.&'The New RepublicFrom the Hardcover edition.