A riotous satire that takes on our hopeless faith in modernity, along with our endless capacity for cruelty and absurd pretension. By the end, one is left longing for more and panting for the movie that will surely come - John Harding * Daily Mail * Wild, rollicking, and wonderfully vulgar. Full of black humour, it's superbly constructed and written with true grit. It's the kind of book you just know the Coen Brothers are itching to adapt, with its vast array of quirky characters and black humour * ShortList * Donald Ray Pollock's brilliant Western is an earthy, raunchy read - Dickensian in its rogue's gallery of oddball characters. A bit like reading Hunter S Thompson crossed with Cormac McCarthy - and a sprinkling of Nick Cave chucked in for brutal measure. will be a book you won't be able to stop recommending once you've finished. * Sunday Times * A blood-laced tale of three brothers who rob and kill their way across the US. * The Times * A tale of weird and darkly funny invention.

Pollock writes like an angel - an angel that has escaped from Knockemstiff lunatic asylum. with a cast of grotesques, eccentric plot twists and humour of the blackest pitch.

In his trademark blend of humor and pathos, Donald Ray Pollock gives us a view into life's dark corners, without ever forgetting there is a lighter side as well - Philipp Meyer * author of American Rust and The Son * Dark, violent and funny, this book will be like nothing else you've ever read * Evening Standard * There is something of the Coen Brothers in The Heavenly Table. The Heavenly Table is brilliant and unforgettable.

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