The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle
The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle
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The Devil in Silver

Author: Victor LaValle

Narrator: Victor LaValle

Unabridged: 13 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2012

Synopsis

Pepper is a rambunctious big man, 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. On his first night, he's visited by a terrifying creature 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; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl. 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?

About Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle's novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the Nation, and Publishers Weekly, among others. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on May 01, 2021

I was looking forward to this horror novel, and—as often happens when I look forward to something—I was disappointed. First of all, the idea that it was written by a young black man—well, young as far as I’m concerned, he was forty when he wrote it—a fan of H.P. Lovecraft who wrote another book base......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on October 16, 2019

For any of you fans of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, here's an updated and fully horrorized version, complete with updated (and unfortunately real) conditions in mental health facilities, updated standard practices for lazy law enforcement, and even a supremely depressing commentary on a modern D......more

Goodreads review by Jordaline on August 18, 2020

5🌟 It's the society that's untethered yet we're institutionalized.......more

Goodreads review by Trish on October 16, 2019

I want to take that book and club the main character to death with it! Meet Pepper, idiot par excellence. Seriously. He tried to help a neighbour whom he fancied, beat up her colleague/ex, was stopped by three undercover cops that he mistook for gangbangers, beat those up as well and - you guessed it......more

Goodreads review by Katy on September 04, 2013

Book Info: Genre: Literary Fiction (per publisher); Dark Fiction (per me) Reading Level: Adult Recommended for: Anyone who likes a great story My Thoughts: This was one of those books I picked up because there wasn’t anything else that really appealed to me, and it just looked strange enough that I wou......more

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