The Devil in Silver: A Novel
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品牌: Victor LaValle
基本信息出版社:Spiegel & Grau (2012年8月21日)精装:464页正文语种:英语ISBN:1400069866条形码:9781400069866商品重量:744 gASIN:1400069866您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very,veryold 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.作者简介Victor LaValleis the award-winning author of two previous novels,The EcstaticandBig Machine,and a collection of short stories,Slapboxing with Jesus.Big Machinewas the winner of an American Book Award and the Shirley Jackson Award in 2010, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by theLos Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation,andPublishers Weekly. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York.
