num_pages: 384
description: From Donald Ray Pollock author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff comes a dark gritty electrifying (and disturbingly weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.It is 1917 in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son Eddie and his wife Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his familys entire fortune his life is put on a surprising unforgettable and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it?In the gothic tradition of Flannery OConnor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genres literary masters.
language: English
title: The Heavenly Table
publisher: Doubleday