The devil in silver : a novel /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | LaValle, Victor D., 1972- |
|---|---|
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2012. |
| Description: | 412 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8929428 |
| Summary: | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY<br> The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Publishers Weekly <br> <br> New Hyde Hospital's psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. <br> <br> 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?<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Praise for The Devil in Silver <br> <br> "A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act."-- The Washington Post <br> <br> "LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner . . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious ."-- Los Angeles Times <br> <br> "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 <br> <br> "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 <br> <br> "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 |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 412 p. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781400069866 1400069866 9780679604860 0679604863 |