Reviews
Praise for The Devil All The Time: "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 "Finely woven. . . . [A] throat-stomping Appalachian crime story." - GQ "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, Praise for The Devil All The Time: "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 "Finely woven. . . . [A] throat-stomping Appalachian crime story." GQ "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
