The book is l aced with dry, black humour * New Statesman * His economical prose excels in its lurid (and often scatological) detail, and his physical descriptions are superb. Pollock's writing is lean and unflinching. A fiendishly enjoyable collection * Daily Telegraph * It wasn't until I actually began writing that I found out that wasn't really true.To get an idea of Donald Ray Pollock's astonishing new book, one could try to imagine a drunken punch-up between a redneck Hemingway and an amphetamine-fuelled Raymond Carver. "The principle reasons for me, as far as being a writer, were: You were your own boss you could do it anywhere and you made lots of money. "I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world," he says. At 45, he quit his job at the mill in order to go to graduate school and become a writer. A high school dropout, he worked in a meatpacking plant and then in a paper mill for 32 years. Pollock moved 13 miles away, to the town of Chillicothe.
but I just thought that I'd rather be somewhere else."
It was nice to have a lot of family around. "From a very early age, I was thinking about escaping. "When I was a kid, it was claustrophobic for me," he says. Most of those people, says fiction writer Donald Ray Pollock, were "connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another." In the 1950s, Knockemstiff had three stores, a bar and a population of about 450 people. Knockemstiff, Ohio, is a tiny hamlet in southern Ohio. Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil All the Time is now out in paperback. This interview was originally broadcast on July 26, 2011. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Devil All the Time Author Donald Ray Pollock
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