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Title: The Devil All the Time
Author: Donald Ray Pollock
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-12-11
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 423 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
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 Stones Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery OConnor 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. Theres Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who cant save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his prayer log. Theres Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll Americas highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. Theres 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 Charlottes 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.
Critic Reviews:
"If Pollocks 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 mules kick, and how he draws these folks and their inevitably hopeless lives without pity is what the kicks all about." (Publishers Weekly)
"The God-fearing hard-luck characters who populate Donald Ray Pollocks debut novel, The Devil All the Time, move through the southern outlands of Ohio and the isolated hollows of West Virginia like figures in a collective nightmare of poverty, addiction, superstition, and crime" (Lisa Shea, ELLE magazine)
This novel fulfills the promise made by Pollocks debut collection, Knockemstiff. He is a real writer, and The Devil All The Time hits you like a telegram from Hell slid under your door at three oclock in the morning. (William Gay, author of Provinces of Night and The Long Home)
Members Reviews:
Horrible things told beautifully
The other reviews already mention the bizarre cast of characters. The darkest of the dark. We follow them along their twisted and on-and-off converging paths. Horrified, mesmerized...and, one has to admit, very much entertained at the hands of an expert storyteller and an excellent narrator. Bravo!
Could NOT Turn it Off! The Devil took me in!
Where does The Devil All the Time rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?
This is among the most captivating audiobooks I've listened to since joining audible. The narration by Mark Bramhall is outstanding.
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What about Mark Bramhalls performance did you like?
Mark Bramhall's narration was pitch perfect. He carried the accents and tone throughout that added to the written form. I never wanted to turn off the audio.
