NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post Publishers Weekly New Hyde Hospitalβs 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 m
The Devil in Silver
β Scribed by LaValle, Victor
- Book ID
- 107556515
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 417 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780679604860
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ 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...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Working as an unpaid servant in her half-brother's house, the beautiful but illegitimate Felicia is drugged and forced to become the mistress of the troubled Duke of Cambria, in a romance set amid the opulence and intrigue of Renaissance Italy
**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