![]() Willard lets it slide and his son is stunned that his hot headed father would allow this to happen, but Willard is devout in his prayer and will get to this matter when he is good and ready. ![]() ![]() ![]() He and his son Arvin ( who we see grow up into a young man – later in the book and takes over the narrative of these characters) are at the prayer log, a holy place that Willard has set up since returning from the war, a place where he and his son come to pray deep within the woods to pray for what we are not sure, forgiveness, peace, hope, revenge?īut there time at the prayer log is interrupted by a couple of hunters, one of which says some disparaging remarks about Willard’s wife. We are introduced to two of our protagonists Willard a returning soldier from World War 2 who had witnessed some unspeakable and barbaric acts whilst serving clearly shell-shocked or suffering from PTSD his life is unraveling one frayed thread at a time. The opening of this book throws us right into the action and what life in this small town is like, and how brutal life here can be. The Devil All The Time is a sprawling, gritty, powerhouse of a book that follows the lives of a handful of characters as they fight to survive in the town of Knockemstiff and the surrounding towns of Ohio and West Virginia. ![]() ‘Some people were born just so they could be buried.’ ![]()
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