The Devil All the Time
  • Published: 15 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099563389
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

The Devil All the Time

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A dark and riveting vision of America from the award-winning author of Knockemstiff. For fans of No Country for Old Men and Natural Born Killers.

**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING TOM HOLLAND AND ROBERT PATTINSON**

'Some people were born just so they could be buried'
In Knockemstiff, Ohio, war veteran Willard can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'.

Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate.

Preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick are running from the law.

And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, looking for answers....

'Superb' The Times
'Terrifying ... an unsettling masterwork' GQ
  • Published: 15 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099563389
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Donald Ray Pollock

After quitting school at seventeen, Donald Ray Pollock worked at Mead Paper Mill and as a truck driver in Chillicothe, Ohio. After thirty-two years employed as a labourer he enrolled at Ohio State University to study creative writing.

He is the author of two acclaimed books, the cult-classic short-story collection Knockemstiff, which went on to win the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, and the novel The Devil All The Time.

www.donaldraypollock.net

Also by Donald Ray Pollock

The Heavenly Table
Fish Sticks / Rainy Sunday (Storycuts)
Lard / Schott's Bridge (Storycuts)
Bactine / Giganthomachy / Pills (Storycuts)
Hair's Fate / Knockemstiff (Storycuts)
Dynamite Hole / Real Life (Storycuts)
Assailants / Discipline / Honolulu (Storycuts)
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Praise for The Devil All the Time

Hits you like a telegram from Hell slid under your door at three o'clock in the morning

William Gay, Author of Provinces of Night and The Long Home

Donald Ray Pollock redefines the term 'American Gothic', taking Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner and turning them up to 11...once you start reading it doesn’t let go

Herald

Superb

The Times

Like being dragged backwards through a briar patch by William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor while Nick Cave howls hosannahs at a blood-black moon

Time Out

One of the most adventurous and significant writers of our time … If the Coen Brothers want their next Oscar they should buy the rights to this book now

Scotland on Sunday

Terrifying ... an unsettling masterwork

GQ

Braiding his plotlines into a taut narrative, Pollock is poised to emerge as a new hero of fans of the American gothic literature

Metro

If Pollock's powerful collection Knockemstiff was a punch to the jaw, his follow-up ... feels closer to a mule's kick

Publisher’s Weekly

Sticky, violet and exhilarating - Pollock's southern gothic tale of thrill killers, pervy preachers and vengeance is best read on a long road trip or at a seedy model poolside

Eliza Clark, author of PENANCE, Observer, *Summer Reads of 2023*
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