Devil In Silver A Novel
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- Engels
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- 9780812982251
- 10 september 2013
- 412 pagina's
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The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post Publishers Weekly
New Hyde Hospitals psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. Hes not mentally ill, but that doesnt seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he cant quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his first night, hes visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. Its 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 whos been on the ward for decades and knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the groups enforcer. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster thats stalking them. But can the Devil die?
The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValles radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, its a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.
Praise for The Devil in Silver
A fearless exploration of Americas heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act.The Washington Post
LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner. . . . Fantastical, hellish and hilarious.Los Angeles Times
Its simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.The New York Times Book Review
Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary Americas inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.The Boston Globe
LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist.The New Republic
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Very believable, unfortunately
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Sounds like the stuff of a nightmare: Pepper is thrown into a psychiatric hospital while there is nothing wrong with him, then finds that no one listens to him as he is an inmate of a psychiatric hospital. So, there he is, stuck on a ward with all kinds of people that do or do not belong there. He's given medicines that make him so drowsy, that he acts just like all the other patients, and sometimes he loses track of the time.
But when a monster visits him at night, he finds out that other patients are also affected by this creature, which they call the Devil. They find out where in the hospital it lives and together undertake actions to rid themselves of the creature. That's easier said than done, of course. But several of the inmates, amongst which an 80+ year old schizophrenic and a 19 year old girl, band together to fight the devil.
In the mean time, we learn about all the wrongdoings in the psychiatric ward, such as keeping people there that are not mentally ill, strapping them to their beds for days, when there is a regulatory maximum of four hours, keeping them dosed with so many pills, that weeks may go by without them noticing it. And the worst of all is, I can really imagine this could be true.
The story seems very realistic, and while the main character is not the kind of person I would identify with easily, I found the story highly engrossing and wanted to keep on reading. I loved the closeness of some of the inmates, who had very little in common other than being on the same ward. The devil turned out to be not quite what they (and I) expected and is more down-to-earth than you would think.
I loved reading this story and would like to recommend it to anyone who is interested in life on a psychiatric ward.Vond je dit een nuttige review?00
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