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The devil in silver

  • Victor D. LaValle

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Pepper is a rambunctious big man, 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. On his first night, he's visited by a terrifying creature 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; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl. 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?

Genres

  • Mentally ill
  • Psychiatric hospital patients
  • Psychiatric hospitals
  • Fiction
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Fiction, psychological
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About the author

  • Victor D. LaValle

    born 1972

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    30 ratings · 22 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Spiegel & Grau

    Sep 10, 2013

  • Edition cover

    Dreamscape Media

    2012

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    Spiegel & Grau

    2012