The Devil in Silver (Signed First Edition)

Victor LaValle

ISBN 10: 1400069866 / ISBN 13: 9781400069866

Published by Spiegel & Grau, New York, 2012

About this Item

New York, Speigel and Grau, 2012. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New in a new dust jacket. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated by him in month of publication, August 2012. This book was purchased new and opened only for author signing. No inscriptions, just author signature and date. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free; defect-free. Top Ten Books of the Year, 2012, as chosen by Publishers Weekly. The Devil in Silver is the story of Pepper, a sane man sent for observation to a mental hospital. The author's third novel.

Seller Inventory # 09-2012-08

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil in Silver (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400069866
• ISBN 13: 9781400069866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

New Hyde Hospital's 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. 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?
 
The Devil in Silver 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.

About the Author

Victor LaValle is the award-winning author of two previous novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine, and a collection of short stories, Slapboxing with Jesus. Big Machine was the winner of an American Book Award and the Shirley Jackson Award in 2010, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, and Publishers Weekly. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York.