![]() ![]() ![]() With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plot lines into a taut, gothic narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. 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. The spider-handling preacher Roy, and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, are running from the law. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock 4.1 (65) eBook 11.99 Paperback 14.49 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0.00 View All Available Formats & Editions Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. Willard Russell is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who 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'. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, it follows a cast of riveting and bizarre characters from the end of the Second World War to the 1960s. The Devil All the Time is a hauntingly intense portrait of America and a shattering vision of violence and redemption. ![]() For fans of No Country for Old Men and Natural Born Killers. A dark and riveting vision of America from the award-winning author of Knockemstiff. ![]()
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