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Granted, it was a small town so it made sense, but when new people came and went, everyone heard about it. Arvin Russell/Original Female Character(s)Įveryone knew everyone in Coal Creek, West Virginia.Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death.Language: English Words: 163,313 Chapters: 32/? Comments: 229 Kudos: 55 Bookmarks: 8 Hits: 3255Ĭlinquaant Fandoms: The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock Lee visits an old flame to help him with his Sandy situation. Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism.Lee Bodecker/Original Female Character(s).With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.Billytea Fandoms: The Devil All the Time (2020), The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.ĭonald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi­cial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill­ers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. 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. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic over­tones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting. Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert PattinsonĪ dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree.