Donald Ray Pollock The Devil All the Time 2011 Retail EPUB eBook

| The Devil All the Time |
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| DATE: 2012-06-06 SIZE: 2,25MB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB PAGES: |
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| PUBLISHER: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group GENRE: Fiction |
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| AUTHOR: Donald Ray Pollock |
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| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-0-385-53505-2 |
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: "If Pollock's powerful collection Knockemstiff was a punch to the jaw, his :
: follow-up, a novel set in the violent soul-numbing towns of southern Ohio :
: and West Virginia, feels closer to a mule's kick, and how he draws these :
: folks and their inevitably hopeless lives without pity is what the kick's :
: all about. Willard Russell is back from the war, on a Greyhound bus passing:
: through Meade, Ohio, in 1945 when he falls for a pretty waitress in a :
: coffee ship. Haunted by what he's seen in the Pacific and by the lovely :
: Charlotte, he finds her again, marries her, and has a son, Arvin. But :
: happiness is elusive, and while Willard teaches his only son some serious :
: survival skills ("You just got to pick the right time," he tells him about :
: getting back at bullies. "They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out :
: there"), Charlotte sickens,Willard goes mad--sacrificing animals and worse :
: at his altar in the woods--and Arvin's sent to his grandmother Emma in Coal:
: Creek. Emma's also raising Leonora, the daughter of a timid religious :
: mother who was murdered, possibility by her father, Roy, the visiting :
: preacher at the Coal Creek Church of the Holy Ghost Sanctified, who along :
: with his guitar-playing, crippled cousin, Theodore, in a wheelchair after :
: drinking strychnine to prove his love for Jesus, has disappeared. And :
: there's on-the-take sheriff Lee Bodecker, whose sister Sandy and her :
: perverted serial killer husband, Carl Henderson, troll the interstates for :
: male hitchhikers he refers to as "models." Pollock pulls them all together,:
: the pace relentless, and just when it seems like no one can ever catch a :
: break, a good guy does, but not in any predictable way." :