Donald Ray Pollock
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Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America's hig...
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Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and often hilarious collection of stories set in the tiny Appalachian town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, a community so deprived and diminished it no longer appears on any map. The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alco...
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The Heavenly Table
Donald Ray Pollock
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 12 Juillet 2016
- 9780385541305
From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that...
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Cane, Cob and Chimney Jewett are young Georgia sharecroppers held under the thumb of their domineering, God-struck father Pearl. When he dies unexpectedly, they set out on horseback to rob and loot their way to wealth and infamy, inspired by a lurid dime novel that only one of them can read.But litt...
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Dynamite Hole / Real Life (Storycuts)
Pollock Donald Ray
- Random house digital
- 17 Novembre 2011
- 9781448128921
In 'Dynamite Hole', Jake has been living wild in the hills of Knockemstiff since he took exception to the drafting process in World War II. When he witnesses an act of sexual transgression by the pond, things start swirling around inside him 'like a storm cloud', and Knockemstiff is soon to have a f...
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Hair's Fate / Knockemstiff (Storycuts)
Pollock Donald Ray
- Random house digital
- 17 Novembre 2011
- 9781448128938
In 'Hair's Fate', when Daniel's father chops off his hair with a kitchen knife for meddling with his younger sister's doll, he decides to leave home. He hitches a ride with a trucker by the name of Cowboy Roy who plies him with liquor and pills, before suggesting a disquieting solution for Daniel's ...
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Bactine / Giganthomachy / Pills (Storycuts)
Pollock Donald Ray
- Random house digital
- 17 Novembre 2011
- 9781448128945
In 'Bactine', a toothless layabout takes a break from nursing his crippled uncle and spends the evening abusing solvents with an acquaintance. The fumes only serve to exacerbate his dismay, though, and a trip to an all-night coffee shop causes some unpleasant recollections to surface. In 'Giganth...
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Lard / Schott's Bridge (Storycuts)
Pollock Donald Ray
- Random house digital
- 17 Novembre 2011
- 9781448128952
In 'Lard', Duane's virginity is getting to be a problem. Not so much for Duane as it is for his friends and his father-whose workmates rib him mercilessly about his son's frigidity. Deciding that his friends' regular outlets are not to his taste, Duane sets about fabricating an encounter. In ...
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Fish Sticks / Rainy Sunday (Storycuts)
Pollock Donald Ray
- Random house digital
- 17 Novembre 2011
- 9781448128969
In 'Fish Sticks', Del is washing his one good pair of black jeans on the eve of his cousin's funeral. He imagines he can hear the sea off the Florida coast in the rumblings of the machines, and casts his mind back to a trip the two made to Florida when they were teenagers. In 'Rainy Sunday',...
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Assailants / Discipline / Honolulu (Storycuts)
Pollock Donald Ray
- Random house digital
- 17 Novembre 2011
- 9781448128976
In 'Assailants', Del's wife hasn't left the house in six months. He likes to escape the tedium of home life with his unhinged wife and baby daughter by courting blackouts with alcohol and drugs. However a trip to the late-night convenience store reveals a latent marital affection. In 'Discipl...
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Holler / I Start Over (Storycuts)
Pollock Donald Ray
- Random house digital
- 17 Novembre 2011
- 9781448128983
In 'Holler', when his wife throws him out, Tom shacks up with the family of a casual girlfriend. They leave it to him to bathe, shave and keep a jug of wine within a straw's reach of their disabled patriarch. In 'I Start Over', retirement has not been living up to Big Bernie's expectations-no...
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Blessed / The Fights (Storycuts)
Pollock Donald Ray
- Random house digital
- 17 Novembre 2011
- 9781448128990
In 'Blessed', a thief's career is cut short when he falls from a rooftop. Since the accident he has been subsisting on a disability cheque, a potent painkiller prescription and having his wife sell her blood. In 'The Fights', Bobby has been off the sauce for five long months. On the advice of...
