A blistering new novel in which three impoverished brothers
accidentally embark on a murderous bank-robbing spree...
From 'a writer of genius', the author of the classics
Knockemstiff and The Devil All the Time
After quitting school at seventeen, Donald Ray Pollock
worked at Mead Paper Mill and as a truck driver in Chillicothe,
Ohio. After thirty-two years employed as a labourer he enrolled at
Ohio State University to study creative writing.
He is the author of two acclaimed books, the cult-classic
short-story collection Knockemstiff, which went on to win the
PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, and the novel The Devil All The
Time.
www.donaldraypollock.net
"The Heavenly Table is brilliant and unforgettable. In his
trademark blend of humor and pathos, Donald Ray Pollock gives us a
view into life's dark corners, without ever forgetting there is a
lighter side as well"
*author of American Rust and The Son*
"Dark, violent and funny, this book will be like nothing else
you've ever read"
*Evening Standard*
"There is something of the Coen Brothers in The Heavenly Table.
This too is southern gothic… with a cast of grotesques, eccentric
plot twists and humour of the blackest pitch… Pollock writes like
an angel – an angel that has escaped from Knockemstiff lunatic
asylum."
*The Times*
"A tale of weird and darkly funny invention."
*Sunday Times*
"A blood-laced tale of three brothers who rob and kill their way
across the US. [The Heavenly Table] will be a book you won’t be
able to stop recommending once you’ve finished… A bit like reading
Hunter S Thompson crossed with Cormac McCarthy – and a sprinkling
of Nick Cave chucked in for brutal measure. It’s the kind of book
you just know the Coen Brothers are itching to adapt, with its vast
array of quirky characters and black humour"
*ShortList*
"Donald Ray Pollock’s brilliant Western is an earthy, raunchy read
– Dickensian in its rogue’s gallery of oddball characters. Full of
black humour, it’s superbly constructed and written with true grit.
By the end, one is left longing for more and panting for the movie
that will surely come"
*Daily Mail*
"Wild, rollicking, and wonderfully vulgar… A riotous satire that
takes on our hopeless faith in modernity, along with our endless
capacity for cruelty and absurd pretension."
*New York Times*
"Truly fabulous… A very wry comedy… When reviewing, I usually mark
down pages with particularly well-honed phrases: I stopped doing so
when reading The Heavenly Table as I probably would have bookmarked
every page…Witty and expansive… I am tempted to say that anyone
wanting to understand contemporary America’s political direction
might be well advised to start with this novel."
*Scotsman*
"A fine (and often very funny) multi-stranded yarn, set at the dawn
of US involvement in WW1 with the nation on the cusp of modernity.
As Tarantino's The Hateful Eight dared onscreen, The Heavenly Table
lances the boil of modern America on the page."
*The Skinny*
"Pollock’s freewheeling, blood-spilling story is well matched by
his prose."
*Literary Review*
"The darkest of Southern Noir… You’ll need a strong stomach and may
want a hot shower afterward, but you’ll never forget Pollock’s
compelling characters."
*Crime Fiction Lover*
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