Feeling like an outsider at school, he is the victim of relentless bullying. While Arvin prays, however, his mind wanders and feelings of isolation bubble to the surface.
Willard is borderline obsessive when it comes to prayer and expects the same from his son. He sits in a clearing with his father, Willard, on an oak log, joining him in his evening prayer routine. In a prologue, Pollock introduces the protagonist, Arvin, as a young boy. As the novel progresses the lives of these people converge in unexpected ways. The Devil All the Time follows the events and fates of various characters who all carry their own secrets from the past. A film adaptation of the same name directed by Antonio Campos and narrated by Pollock, starred Tom Holland, Sebastian Stan, Robert Pattinson and Bill Skarsgård, and was produced by Jake Gyllenhaal. Its plot follows desperate characters in post- World War II Southern Ohio and West Virginia, including a disturbed war veteran, a husband and wife who are serial killers, and a false preacher.
The Devil All the Time is the debut novel by American writer Donald Ray Pollock, published in 2011 by Doubleday.
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