{"product_id":"9780812982251","title":"The Devil in Silver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, \u003ci\u003every\u003c\/i\u003e old one.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his first night, he’s 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. 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 who’s 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 group’s enforcer. 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?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in Silver\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle’s radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, it’s a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in Silver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A \u003cb\u003efearless\u003c\/b\u003e exploration of America’s heart of darkness . . . a dizzying high-wire act.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is \u003cb\u003ea stunner\u003c\/b\u003e. . . . Fantastical, hellish and \u003cb\u003ehilarious\u003c\/b\u003e.”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “It’s simply too \u003cb\u003ebighearted\u003c\/b\u003e, too gentle, too \u003cb\u003ekind\u003c\/b\u003e, too \u003cb\u003eculturally observant\u003c\/b\u003e and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Embeds a \u003cb\u003esophisticated\u003c\/b\u003e critique of contemporary America’s inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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 \u003cb\u003estriking\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eoriginal\u003c\/b\u003e American novelist.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007779553520,"sku":"9780812982251","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812982251_p0.jpg?v=1769909932","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812982251","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}