Description: From the acclaimed author of "Knockemstiff" comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, this book follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s.
Review Quotes: "Brutally creative. . . . Pollock knows how to dunk readers into a scene and when to pull them out gasping."--The New York Times Book Review
"Fulfills the promise in [Knockemstiff]. . . . Invites comparisons to Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver." -USA Today
"For fans of No Country for Old Men . . . sure to give you goose bumps." --Details
"Should cement Pollock's reputation as a significant voice in American fiction." --Los Angeles Times "Will have you on the edge of your seat." --Christian Science Monitor
"A systematic cataloguing of the horror and hypocrisy that festers in the dark shadow of the American dream." --The Portland Mercury "You may be repelled, you may be shocked, you will almost certainly be horrified, but you will read every last word." --The Washington Post
"Disarmingly smooth prose startled by knife-twists of black humor. . . . Expertly employs the conventions of Southern Gothic horror."-- The Wall Street Journal
"Reads as if the love child of O'Connor and Faulkner was captured by Cormac McCarthy, kept in a cage out back and forced to consume nothing but onion rings, Oxycontin and Terrence Malick's Badlands."--The Oregonian
"[Pollock] doesn't get a word wrong in this super-edgy American Gothic stunner."--Elle "Features a bleak and often nightmarish vision of the decades following World War II, a world where redemption, on the rare occasions when it does come to town, rides shotgun with soul-scarring consequences."--The Onion, A.V. Club "Mr. Pollock's new novel is, if anything, even darker than the Knockemstiff, and its violence and religious preoccupations venture into Flannery O'Connor territory."--The New York Times
"Donald Ray Pollock's engaging and proudly violent first novel...suggests a new category of fiction--grindhouse literary. Subtle characterization: check. Well-crafted sentences: check. Enthusiastic amounts of murder and mayhem: check, check."--The Daily Beast "Beneath the gothic horror is an Old Testament sense of a moral order in the universe, even if the restoration of that order itself requires violence."--The Columbus Dispatch
"A smorgasbord of grotesque characters trapped in a pressure-cooker plot. . . . Brutal fun."--Esquire
"For a first novel so soaked in stale sweat and bright fresh blood, Pollock's sweat is well-earned, and his blood is wise."--Philadelphia Citypaper
"A gallery of reprobates and religious fanatics... are multidimensional, flawed human beings."--Dayton Daily News "[The Devil All the Time is] a world unto its own, a world vividly and powerfully brought to life by a literary stylist who packs a punch as deadly as pulp-fiction master Jim Thompson and as evocative and morally rigorous as Russell Banks."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"Stunning . . . . One wild story . . . gives us sex, murder, mayhem and some of the most bizarre characters in fiction today."--Richmond Times-Dispatch