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The Devil All the Time

By: Donald Ray Pollock
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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About this listen

A Netflix feature film starring Tom Holland and Bill Skarsgård.

Willard 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'.

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 spider-handling 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, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.

A dark and riveting vision of America from the award-winning author of Knockemstiff.

©2011 Donald Ray Pollock (P)2011 Random House Genre Fiction Gothic Horror Literary Fiction Fiction Marriage Scary Emotionally Gripping

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Critic reviews

"Donald Ray Pollock redefines the term 'American Gothic' in his debut novel, taking Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner and turning them up to 11.... The Devil All the Time is a very dark slice of Americana." (The Herald)

"An extraordinarily brutal yet tender insight into the lives of his characters. 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... Spider-gobbling revivalists, kick-back sheriffs, sideshow freaks, perfidious preachers - all are present and most incorrect....You can taste the metal in the water and the tang of decay in the fetid air." (Time Out)
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keeps you guessing, some pretty interesting crimes that are disturbing! like watching criminal minds in book form though!

like criminal minds episode

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Great narration of a gothic, utterly macabre story. I could see all the places, faces and blood.....

Unremittingly grim, I loved it

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Seen through the lives of various people from the rural farmlands of Ohio, the devil is partly the quagmire of their circumstances and partly just the depravity of the human soul. The narrator does a great job with the rural mid western accent, giving each character a personality, pulling the listener into each of the stories. Made me want to read the book once again. Definitely not for the soft of hearts that believe in good things happening to good people!!!

All roads lead to a sad depressing ending.

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One of the best stories I ever heard on audible

Just a gripping story well written and well narrated with twists and turns

I can’t recommend this book enough

Brilliant

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Loved it, brilliant story performed excellently. There is a lot more in here than in the netflix film 5 stars from me

Stunning book

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