Donald Ray Pollock has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 48 ratings. The most-rated is The Devil All the Time.
The Devil All the Time
Summary
From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff—called “powerful, remarkable, exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times—comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.
©2011 Donald Ray Pollock (P)2011 Random House
The Heavenly Table
Summary
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 borderland 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, heavyset, 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.
©2016 Donald Ray Pollock (P)2016 Random House Audio
Knockemstiff
Summary
In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Spanning a period from the mid-'60s to the late '90s, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are woebegone, baffled, and depraved - but irresistibly, undeniably real. Rendered in the American vernacular with vivid imagery and a wry, dark sense of humor, these thwarted and sometimes violent lives jump off the page at the listener with inexorable force. A father pumps his son full of steroids, so he can vicariously relive his days as a perpetual runner-up body builder. A psychotic rural recluse comes upon two siblings committing incest and feels compelled to take action. Donald Ray Pollock presents his characters and the sordid goings-on with a stern intelligence, a bracing absence of value judgments, and a refreshingly dark sense of bottom-dog humor. With an artistic instinct honed on the works of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews, Pollock offers a powerful work of fiction in the classic American vein. Knockemstiff is a genuine entry into the literature of place. Audiobook Cast of Narrators: "Real Life" read by Kirby Heyborne "Dynamite Hole" read by Mark Bramhall "Knockemstiff" read by Macleod Andrews "Hair’s Fate" read by Andrew Eiden "Pills" read by Kirby Heyborne "Gianthomachy" read by David Garelick "Schott’s Bridge" read by Matt Godfrey "Lard" read by Macleod Andrews "Fish Sticks" read by Dan Woren "Bactine" read by Rob Shapiro "Discipline" read by R.C. Bray "Assailants" read by Dan Woren "Rainy Sunday" read by Amy Landon "Holler" read by Andrew Eiden "I Start Over" read by Joe Ochman
©2008 Donald Ray Pollock (P)2018 Random House Audio
Le diable, tout le temps
Summary
Dès les premières lignes, Donald Ray Pollock nous entraîne dans une odyssée inoubliable, dont on ne sort pas indemne. De l'Ohio à la Virginie-Occidentale, de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années 60, les destins de plusieurs personnages se mêlent et s'entrechoquent. Williard Russell, rescapé de l'enfer du Pacifique, revient au pays hanté par des visions d'horreur. Lorsque sa femme Charlotte tombe gravement malade, il est prêt à tout pour la sauver, même s'il ne doit rien épargner à son fils, Arvin. Carl et Sandy Henderson forment un couple étrange qui écume les routes et enlève de jeunes auto-stoppeurs qui connaîtront un sort funeste. Roy, un prédicateur convaincu qu'il a le pouvoir de réveiller les morts, et son acolyte Théodore, un musicien en fauteuil roulant, vont de ville en ville, fuyant la loi et leur passé. Toute d'ombre et de lumière, la prose somptueuse de Pollock contraste avec les actes terribles de ses personnages violents et malgré tout attachants. >> Ce livre audio en version intégrale vous est proposé en exclusivité par Audible et est uniquement disponible en téléchargement.
©2012 Albin Michel. Traduit de l’américain par Christophe Mercier (P)2017 Audible Studios