The Devil in Silver

Praise for The Devil in Silver

Praise for The Devil in Silver

A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness...A dizzying high-wire act.

Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious.

It's simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.

Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America's inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.

LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist.

Praise for Victor LaValle

LaValle hooks the reader deep into his increasingly eldritch thriller.

Wonderfully creepy and impossible to put down.

Victor LaValle is the author of eight works of fiction: five novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, an American Book Award, two Bram Stoker Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by the Los Angeles Times , Washington Post , Chicago Tribune , The Nation and Publishers Weekly , among others. The Devil in Silver is soon to be a major TV series. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University.