The devil in silver [electronic resource] : a novel / Victor LaValle.
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?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679604860 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0679604863 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2012.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Psychiatric hospital patients > Fiction. Psychiatric hospitals > Fiction. Mentally ill > Fiction. Queens (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Electronic books. |