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  • Engels
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  • 9780679604860
  • 21 augustus 2012
  • -306945
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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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Hoofdauteur
Victor Lavalle
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One World

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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.

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