The Devil in Silver: A Novel

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Random House Publishing Group, Sep 10, 2013 - Fiction - 432 pages
New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.
 
“A dizzying high-wire act.”—The Washington Post
“Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious.”—Los Angeles Times
“By turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.”—The Boston Globe
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review,  The Washington Post,  Publishers Weekly
 
Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die? 
 
The Devil in Silver is a thrillingly suspenseful literary work about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.
 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
17
Section 3
25
Section 4
33
Section 5
49
Section 6
61
Section 7
72
Section 8
74
Section 22
219
Section 23
227
Section 24
229
Section 25
236
Section 26
237
Section 27
245
Section 28
252
Section 29
263

Section 9
86
Section 10
94
Section 11
99
Section 12
102
Section 13
113
Section 14
126
Section 15
140
Section 16
154
Section 17
162
Section 18
174
Section 19
183
Section 20
195
Section 21
211
Section 30
270
Section 31
281
Section 32
292
Section 33
303
Section 34
315
Section 35
324
Section 36
335
Section 37
352
Section 38
356
Section 39
374
Section 40
380
Section 41
395
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Victor LaValle is the award-winning author of two previous novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine, and a collection of short stories, Slapboxing with Jesus. Big Machine was 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 the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, and Publishers Weekly. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York.

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