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Devil in Silver by Victor Lavalle (2012, Hardcover)

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It also has a very, very old one. Its no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster thats stalking them.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSpiegel & Grau

ISBN-101400069866

ISBN-139781400069866

eBay Product ID (ePID)109116908

Product Key Features

Book TitleDevil in Silver

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Horror, Literary

Publication Year2012

GenreFiction

AuthorVictor Lavalle

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight23.1 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-034970

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act."-- The Washington Post "LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner . . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious ."-- Los Angeles Times "It's simply too bighearted , too gentle, too kind , too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two."-- The New York Times Book Review "Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America's inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic."-- The Boston Globe "LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist."-- The New Republic, "A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act."-- The Washington Post "LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner . . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious ."-- Los Angeles Times "It's simply too bighearted , too gentle, too kind , too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two."-- The New York Times Book Review "Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America's inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic."-- The Boston Globe "LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist."-- The New Republic From the Hardcover edition., "A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act."- The Washington Post "LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner . . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious ."-Porochista Khakpour, Los Angeles Times "It's simply too bighearted , too gentle, too kind , too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two."- The New York Times Book Review " The Devil in Silver . . . embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America's inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic."- The Boston Globe "LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist."- The New Republic From the Hardcover edition., Advance praise for The Devil in Silver "Literary horror just found a new master. Profound, and profoundly terrifying, Victor LaValle's The Devil in Silver is a page-turning delight."-Gary Shteyngart " The Devil in Silver is the rare work that takes seemingly disparate parts and brings them together seamlessly into something entirely original. There is madness here, and it is infused with brilliance, and the result is a story that is as illuminating as it is entertaining."-Mat Johnson, author of Pym Praise for Victor LaValle's Big Machine "Unruly and entertaining . . . a monumental dream work."- Los Angeles Times "Spectacular . . . sprawling, fantastical."- The Washington Post "Magnificent."- Chicago Tribune Winner of the American Book Award Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Publishers Weekly New Hyde Hospital's psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He's not mentally ill, but that doesn't seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can't quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his first night, he's visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It's no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic who's been on the ward for decades and knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the group's enforcer. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster that's stalking them. But can the Devil die? The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle's radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, it's a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons. Praise for The Devil in Silver "A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act."-- The Washington Post "LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner . . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious ."-- Los Angeles Times "It's simply too bighearted , too gentle, too kind , too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two."-- The New York Times Book Review "Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America's inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic."-- The Boston Globe "LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist."-- The New Republic, New Hyde Hospital's psychiatric ward has a new resident. In the darkness of his room on his first night, he's visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. But it's no delusion.

LC Classification NumberPS3562.A8458D48 2012