Waiting on Wednesday – The Heavenly Table: A Novel by Donald Ray Pollock

December 9, 2015 Bonnie Waiting on Wednesday 3 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday – The Heavenly Table: A Novel by Donald Ray Pollock

The Heavenly Table: A Novel by Donald Ray Pollock
Published by Doubleday on July 12th 2016
Pages: 336
Genres: Southern Gothic/Country Noir
Format: Hardcover
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Also by this author: The Devil All the Time, The Heavenly Table

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.

It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family’s entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it?

In the gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre’s literary masters.

About Donald Ray Pollock

Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff. He dropped out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant, and then spent thirty-two years employed in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio. He graduated from the MFA program at Ohio State University in 2009, and still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy. His first book, Knockemstiff, won the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou’wester, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, Granta, NYTBR, Washington Square, and The Berkeley Fiction Review. The Devil All the Time is his first novel.

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I am constantly raving about what an incredible novel The Devil All the Time is. The wait has been fierce but finally there’s a new book coming out next Summer. Cannot wait.

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Tammy @Books, Bones & Buffy

December 9th, 2015

I’ve had The Devil All the Time on my reading list since it came out, but it’s still just sitting on my shelf! I will read it at some point, and I’ll be adding this too. Cool cover!
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Tracy (@Cornerfolds)

This one does sound interesting! I’ve never read anything by this author! I hope you enjoy it when you get a copy 😀
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