The Short Version: Arvin Russell watches his mother die despite his father’s best prayers and then loses his father shortly thereafter.  He grows up as several other characters – a corrupt sheriff, a preacher and his demented brother, a young orphan girl, a sadistic serial killer couple – from that fateful area known as Knockemstiff spiral towards an inevitable horrible conclusion. The Review: This book was one of the second-tier reads from last season’s Tournament of Books.  I’m not trying to say that I wasn’t interested […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Donald Ray Pollock, Fiction, Knockemstiff, Literature, The Devil All the Time, The Tournament of Books 2012