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Rate this:. It is , 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 family's 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 O'Connor 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 genre's literary masters. Edition: First edition. Copyright Date: ISBN: Characteristics: pages ; 24 cm. From the critics. Comment Add a Comment. This is a powerful writer. Not always pretty, but a darn good storyteller. Left me breathless. Age Add Age Suitability. Summary Add a Summary. Notices Add Notices. Quotes Add a Quote. Families — Fiction Suspense Fiction. Powered by BiblioCommons. This is the first book to explore the significance of the Han sky systematically and in depth in relation to classical acupuncture. That each chapter covers philosophical theory and uses practical examples and exercise throughout marks this book out as unique among modern texts. We are always looking for ways to improve customer experience on Elsevier. We would like to ask you for a moment of your time to fill in a short questionnaire, at the end of your visit. If you decide to participate, a new browser tab will open so you can complete the survey after you have completed your visit to this website. Thanks in advance for your time. About Elsevier. Set via JS. Author: Roisin Golding. Hardcover ISBN: Imprint: Churchill Livingstone. Published Date: 15th October Page Count: Free Shipping Free global shipping No minimum order. Easy to follow and easy to use. The Heavenly Table is daft, gruesome, offensive – and loads of fun to read

Choose for yourself, just be prepared for anything. View all 9 comments. What a crazy ride. The year is , when lawlessness still reigned. You know that What a crazy ride. You know that scene in the movie "The Hangover" where Mike Tyson randomly punches one of the dudes on a binge in Vegas? I got that feeling over and over again, and it brought me smiles. If you enjoyed the movie "Fargo" with its repulsive little oddities, then this may be a great ride for you too. There is plenty of vulgarity here, but it is inserted as satire - Twain style. If, however, you have a tendency to take things literally - particularly if you are a female - then you might steer clear. As far as novels I'd list with a similar flavor, The Sisters Brothers would probably be it. And I loved that one! If you've expressed any interest in this novel, you've surely read the publisher's blurb. It will tell you that there are three brothers - each whose names begins with the letter C - who live in a filthy shack with their religiously "touched" father that is convinced that the only way to get to see his deceased wife again at "the heavenly table" is to starve and suffer The boys are forced to subsist on some thoroughly disgusting food stuffs and to work clearing swamps for next to no money. When their pa finally crosses into said afterlife, in as inelegant a way possible, the three brothers decide they've had enough. The eldest can read, thanks to his long gone mom's efforts, and has read to his brothers aloud over the years from the single book they own. With no education or experience, the book gives them the idea to steal a few horses and a couple of guns, rob a bank, and head to Canada where they'll purchase a farm to work, then live happily ever after. A book can be a dangerous thing, you know.. This odyssey introduces dozens of interesting and quirky characters, a goat shed turned into a brothel, town guidelines on the depth each outhouse hole must maintain, and a dark saloon where the barkeep will give you the jitters. There are prostitutes here whose skills are described with big-time lewdness, and as fits the times, some really ill treatment of the lone black character who passes through. There is a morality officer at the local army base who, as a physician, lectures them on the evils of premarital sex. He treats gonorrhea in front of the entire troop to make a point. Quoting here, "the look on the soldiers' faces as they watched him knock the clap snot out of some hilljack's pizzle with a rubber hammer was priceless. Three dollar screws in a pup tent. In Michigan, no less. Sometimes I wake up and wonder what the hell ever happened " "You're in Ohio," Esther told her. He doubted it. As blind as he was to most of his defects, even Powys knew that the first thing a man lost when he entered politics was his humanity. He had awoken this morning tangled up in a patch of ivy with a raging headache and a tiny beak stuck between his two front teeth. As a gay man, he feels a bit like a misfit in the camp, but ultimately will have his hopes realized in ways he didn't expect. He was one of the side-line characters that made the entire story feel like an ensemble performance. I loved that everyone that crossed the pages was so incredibly real. Some of the characters are truly depraved, but somehow, the three brothers did not strike me as rotten. Here is a review by someone far more astute than me for comparison. In sum, the plot is colorful and full of characters that we come to know in depth and to care about as well. This is a fantastic guy-book, but for my gal pals who love a great story with surprises and can handle cowboy-crudity, I recommend this highly. It is probably a 4 star read, as the first maybe 50 pages were a bit iffy for me, but once I got over the nastiness, I was happy to have been kidnapped. It's funny the variety of books one is led to from just one great read! A Goodreads friend attended a book festival where this author, Donald Ray Pollack, was speaking. Because he only started publishing at the age of 52, he has been a reader more than a writer his entire life. He listed several books that he said were huge influences on his craft, and because my girlfriend is just like me, she grabbed a pen and wrote them all down. Since then, we have taken a pledge to read everything that Donald thinks is outstanding! From trips to Antarctica to the gas chambers of Berkinau and on to the wild, wild west, I have been having an outstanding reading experience lately. It all started with reading this one quirky but excellent and dark book! View all 25 comments. Dec 13, Paul Bryant rated it liked it Shelves: novels. If this is the first book by Mr Pollock you read you will think this is a vile hellish descent into American rural lowlife but fans of the previous two will be amazed that some of the characters are actually nice and some of them are allowed to feel er, whats the word. The story we have been told many times before — dirt-poor farm boys stumble into a brief, violent life of crime and get their comeuppance. And After being involved professionally with children for so many years, he found it difficult to trust anyone who might possibly have been one in the past. View 1 comment. Oct 06, Laura rated it it was amazing Shelves: a-team-group-read. It's rude, it's crude, it's vulgar, it's ribald I had to use this word, yes, it's my new word I learned from reading Cormac but it's also redeeming. However, this redemption of sorts, doesn't come until much later in the book. I'm still thinking who in good faith can I recommend this book to?! You've got to get through some rowdy and raunchy scenes and characters that are downright no good. It is dark Wow! It is dark and humorous and so well done. Pollock is a writing genius. He takes these deplorable and inexcusable characters and situations to such great extremes it's hard to not flinch, throw in the towel, look away, walk away or read with one eye shut but somehow he brings you to the place that you are rooting and caring for these unforgiveable characters. He's a genius! This one isn't like that but it's not mild either. Highly recommend but to who, I don't know. View all 17 comments. Especially if you go into it expecting certain things based on the book blurb summary given by the publisher. I really enjoyed Pollock's writing in this one, just as tough and bold as we've come to expect in his work, but this time it has an added dose of black-humored wit that helped support the more pulp-y tone this book carried. Another thing that Pollock fans will expect are colorful, memorable characters, which this book has in spades. And that unfortunately leads to one aspect where the book falters, and that's in its pacing. The thing that's good to know before getting into the book is that it quickly jumps back and forth between a large cast of characters and Pollock spends a lot of time one could argue unnecessarily developing backstory for everyone, which really weakens the pace, to the point where a few times in the book I was wondering where he was going with all of this. But once I got the hang of it all, it finally clicked to me that Pollock was creating a tapestry of this disparate cast of characters all dealing with the immense change that was happening around them in , when the book is set. Whether it be the looming presence of the Great War across the sea in strange, faraway lands called Germany and France, to the growing popularity of automobiles, the introduction of indoor plumbing, or the breakdown of outlaw legend in the face of hard reality, every character here must come face to face with this change and decide either to move with it and embrace it, or to reject it. I wouldn't recommend this one to everyone, especially with its focus on so many seemingly secondary characters, but if you don't mind that, then give it a go. It's surely not as good as the author's first two books, but it's still a worthy addition to his work. This is a raw but very funny multi- stranded Western. The central plot focuses on the hapless Jewett brothers, who after their fathers death and in homage to a pulp novel they adore become bank robbers and set off from Georgia for the Canadian border. Never mind that theyre just three dipshit farm boys in dirty white shirts riding horses. Once in Ohio, their paths cross with the other characters and subplots an Army training camp where many young men who couldnt locate Germany on a map are This is a raw but very funny multi-stranded Western. At times I thought this got more bitter and gruesome than it needed to, especially with Pollard and Sugar. The sex talk is also undeniably filthy. But overall I found it to be a rollicking treat of a morality tale where there are no entirely good guys. To do so, she felt, would be like hitching her star to a fence post that just happened to breathe air and draw a paycheck. View all 3 comments. Sep 25, Darwin8u rated it liked it Shelves: I thought of it as a mash-up between Chuck Palahniuk and Dashiell Hammett. I've heard people talk about this "It still amazed him how you could just be plugging along, stuck in the deepest depression, and then something a little bit wonderful happened that suddenly changed your outlook on everything, that turned your world from darkness to light, made you glad you were still walking the earth. I've heard people talk about this book in terms of Gogol, Meyer, or McCarthy. Pollock has a lot of talent and is a master of transgressive fiction, but his prose in this novel just seemed to me a bit thin. The novel didn't drill me as hard as 'The Devil All the Time'. It just seemed a bit too messy and contrived. I think Mel captures the essence of Pollock's fiction. He writes "angry, bizarre, violent, raw, raunchy, and darkly hilarious novels". He seems like balancing between the world between the outcast, the carny, the pervert, and the creep. In this novel he spends a couple hours in the fecal swamps to find a couple silver dollars. I guess it would have been worth the shit swim if the payout was just a bit more. View 2 comments. Aug 14, Lauren rated it really liked it Shelves: realism , historical , crime. Most people, Cob concluded, weren't nearly as decent as they imagined themselves to be. Just look at the way he had turned out. Pollock does picaresque as the Jewett brothers take to the road armed with life lessons from a Confederate pulp novel. Cane, Cob, and Chimney Jewett have grown up hard-working and dirt-poor, the sons of sharecropper Pearl Jewett, who is convinced that all his suffering will prove worthwhile if it affords him a place at "the heavenly table," which is consolation you Most people, Cob concluded, weren't nearly as decent as they imagined themselves to be. Cane, Cob, and Chimney Jewett have grown up hard-working and dirt-poor, the sons of sharecropper Pearl Jewett, who is convinced that all his suffering will prove worthwhile if it affords him a place at "the heavenly table," which is consolation you need while trying to stretch a few more meals out of a side of diseased pork. On Pearl's death, the handsome, intelligent Cane and hot-headed, unscrupulous Chimney talk the "simple" Cob into committing just one or two small bank robberies in order to fund their new lives. Unsurprisingly, this escalates into a multi-state crime spree, as the brothers struggle to master their new career and gather up their nest egg. On their travels, they meet a lot of people, from a down-at- the-heels farmer and his wife to an extraordinarily well-endowed sanitation inspector to a serial killer. The book's handful of flaws stem from its virtues. Pollock seems incapable of writing a boring sentence--it's hard to think of anyone who writes more beautifully about ugliness--but for a while, especially in the book's middle section, that gorgeous grit becomes just a little monotonous. Enough pessimism becomes its own predictability, and around the time Sugar had a very brief epiphany about giving up his nickname and reclaiming some kind of respectable life and then immediately got stung on the tip of his nose, I couldn't help thinking, Well, of course he did. For the most part, regardless of the violence, death, and depravity, The Heavenly Table has a comedic sensibility, and Pollock has a recognizable joke style--dignity gets punctured and there's dirt underneath nearly everything--which works better sometimes, and at some lengths, than others. In the final third, though, Pollock lets a little melancholy and kindness vary the rhythms, and the stakes start to feel like they matter. This is especially true for the Jewett brothers--the manhunt for them continues even as they stop robbing people and just try to gather up some pleasure and get away alive, and the scenes of them tentatively remaking themselves as "gentlemen," with Chimney getting his "girlfriend," Cob befriending Jasper, and Cane reading Richard III , are some of the best in the book--but also for some of the vast cast of colorful supporting characters, like Bovard, the gay Army officer on the hunt for a glorious death, and the Fiddlers, who have lost their life savings to a con man. This collision of all the characters, with their good and bad intentions, is maybe the best writing Pollock has ever done. There are characters who I think deserved more attention towards the end, especially when their ends were ignominious. This is not really the kind of novel where it's feasible to imagine many happy endings, although we do get one , but in the absence of more conclusion for Bovard, I'm going to go ahead and say he ends up with Wesley. Sugar's death at the hands of the police, on the other hand, while unfortunately plausible, rankled, if only because he spends the entire novel getting repeatedly beaten and humiliated, and that made his death feel not like a tragic end to his story, like Cane's, or even an abrupt and unfair termination, but instead another way in which he didn't get space to develop as a character. He has personality, but he ends up basically being a punching bag to be treated ridiculously and largely without pathos until he dies in the same kind of way, making his plotline frustratingly one-note. Oct 13, Dana rated it it was amazing Shelves: audiobooks. Pollock introduces a long list of characters in this book and you wonder at times how it is all going to come together but he does a brilliant job weaving it into a colorful tale; converging the character's lives along the way. This Southern Gothic tale is dark, vile, humorous and full of symbolism. Like 4. Pollock introduces a long list of characters in this book and you wonder at times how it is all going to come together — but he does a brilliant job weaving it into a colorful tale; converging the character's lives along the way. When their father dies, the Jewett brothers are left without guidance until they decide to emulate their hero, a dime-novel hero called Bloody Bill Bucket. Their bloody trail crosses the paths of a farmer named Ellsworth Fiddler and a hobo named Sugar. Will the brothers make it to Canada alive to live out their days in peace? I got this from Netgalley. The Heavenly Table is the tale of the three Jewett brothers and the people they encounter after striking out on their own after their father Pearl When their father dies, the Jewett brothers are left without guidance until they decide to emulate their hero, a dime-novel hero called Bloody Bill Bucket. The Heavenly Table is the tale of the three Jewett brothers and the people they encounter after striking out on their own after their father Pearl dies. Dirt poor and ignorant of the ways of the world, Cane, Cob, and Chimney take up robbing banks in the manner of their dime-novel hero, Bloody Bill Bucket. The tale Donald Ray Pollock crafts here is full of violence and dark humor. There's drinking, killing, whoring, and even a trained chimpanzee. The five plot threads repeatedly intersect until almost everyone is dead. Pollard the bartender, Sugar the bum, Jasper the sanitation inspector, Ellsworth Fiddler, the farmer with terrible luck, and Bovard, the secretly gay army officer, all flitter around the edges of the Jewetts' tale, periodically intersecting with them. Jasper, the outhouse inspector with a wang like the size of a baguette, was my favorite of the supporting players. The Jewett brothers were an interesting mix. Cane, the oldest and smartest, was the leader. Cob, the simpleton, stayed with the others out of loyalty, and Chimney, the hothead, was lucky he survived childhood. Much like Knockemstiff , the setting was a vivid part of the story. The town of Meade felt so real I could almost smell it at times. When things finally came together at the end, it was one bloody encounter after the next. I was glad the people who lived through it lived through it. The dark humor was unquestionably my favorite part of the story. I repeatedly interrupted my lady friend's Harry Potter reading with talk of going to the Whore Barn and other questionable things. Four out of five stars. View all 30 comments. Jul 09, Marvin rated it it was amazing. This is his third book and with it, he has pretty much cemented his status as the 21th centurys answer to William Faulkner, Flannery OConnor and Cormac McCarthy all rolled into one. In his first two books, He introduced us to the town of Knockemstiff, Ohio and in this one, he turns Meade, Ohio of into a tableau of down-and- outs, barely surviving farmers and townsmen, and the outcasts beyond and between the law. In The Heavenly Table we are introduced to the Jewett Family, Pearle and his three sons named Kane, Cob, and Chimney, who barely make a living sharecropping and often surviving on anything they can scrounge off the land. Pearle tells his boys they suffer now so they can eat off the heavenly table after death. Yet when their father passes away, they decide to emulate their fictional Pulp Western book Hero Bloody Bill Bucket and take to robbing banks. With the reluctant acceptance of slow-in-the-mind Cob, they are willing to sacrifice the heavenly table for more earthly comforts even if it means violence and bloodshed. Their exploits take them from Alabama and on the way to Canada until everyone meets up in Meade, Ohio. While the Jewett brothers are the focal point of the novel, Pollock weaves all these tales together to form a world of his own with a desperation all its own. There is just enough tenderness in the hard lives of these characters to keep you interested and involved. There may be a lot of cruelty but few of them are evil. Most of them are surviving in the only way they know how. That is why I found this novel to be so incredible. The insightful prose never stops. Both literary landscapes take a slice of America and populate it with characters that sing off the pages. And storytelling is exactly what the author is doing by weaving a variety of stories to make an exquisite whole. Donald Ray Pollock, for my money, is the most exciting American author actively writing. He has solidified his own unique style with three books. Any of the three are well worth reading but The Heavenly Table is the most complex and original of the three. Is it possible that Pollock is becoming a gasp big ol' softy in his old age? Not that this was all rainbows and cotton candy and puppies. Far from it! This was still just about as dark and violent and relentlessly grim as it gets. But I think it's also a far more accessible and dare I say funnier novel than 4. But I think it's also a far more accessible and dare I say funnier novel than Devil. Reading Pollock, I'm constantly reminded of those parody calendars with faux inspirational quotes like: It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black. If that kind of thing makes you chuckle, then you're probably just the kind of twisted reader who will enjoy this novel as much as I did! This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Pages: 40 Pages: Seller Inventory LB Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Young, Art; Gellert, Hugo Frontispiece illustrator. Twelfth Printing. Previous owners name and date on the front flyleaf and half-title. Heavy chipping and loss to the dustjacket, front panel has broken free of the spine and front jacket flap, but reattached with Japanese Paper. From: Reader's Corner, Inc. 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Set in! His writing evokes Cormac McCarthy, Flanner O'Connor, Jim Thompson, and "Deadwood," but he has a powerful, distinctive voice and a willingness to dive into the swamp of human depravity and misery that, while it can be hard to take, is intense and compelling. Also see "The Devil All the Time. I was at a Grateful Dead show back in the year of our Lord when I started seeing little red demons flying out of the speakers and come screaming past my head. That experience was almost as terrifying as this grisly, gritty tale that played out more like a version of Pulp Fiction than historical fiction. I found myself cringing on more than one occasion and like so often happens in real life was rooting more for the outlaws than the "good guys. Relentlessly grim and gross. Pollock has never been an upbeat writer, but the lives he examines are nasty, brutish and short. I hardly believe in constant sunshine, but reading this work is even more depressing than usual for Pollock. 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This item has been added to your basket View basket Checkout. Your local Waterstones may have stock of this item. View other formats and editions. When he dies unexpectedly, they set out on horseback for Canada, robbing and looting their way to wealth and infamy. But little goes to plan and soon they're pursued by both the authorities and the stories emanating from their trail of destruction - making the Jewett Gang out to be the most fearsome trio of murdering bank robbers in the Midwest. The truth, though, is far more complex than the legend. And the heaven they've imagined may in fact be worse than the hell they sought to escape. This too is southern gothic Pollock writes like an angel - an angel that has escaped from Knockemstiff lunatic asylum. Full of black humour, it's superbly constructed and written with true grit. A riotous satire that takes on our hopeless faith in modernity, along with our endless capacity for cruelty and absurd pretension. A very wry comedy When reviewing, I usually mark down pages with particularly well- honed phrases: I stopped doing so when reading The Heavenly Table as I probably would have bookmarked every page Witty and expansive I am tempted to say that anyone wanting to understand contemporary America's political direction might be well advised to start with this novel. You'll need a strong stomach and may want a hot shower afterward, but you'll never forget Pollock's compelling characters. Nor will you want to. And the kicker is this: He somehow keeps getting better. With uniquely vivid and graceful prose he renders a tale destined to linger in the reader's mind, a story by turns violent and darkly amusing, and always powerful. The novel is sure to be ranked among the year's best. It is potent and chimeric, dank, violent, swamped in tragedy-and funny as hell. Added to basket. Girl, Woman, Other. Bernardine Evaristo. The Foundling. Stacey Halls. The Midnight Library. Matt Haig. The Sentinel. Lee Child. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. A Song for the Dark Times. Ian Rankin. Francine Toon. Those Who Are Loved. Victoria Hislop. Because of You. Dawn French. The Thursday Murder Club. Richard Osman. Shuggie Bain. Douglas Stuart. The Long Call. Ann Cleeves. The Confession. If you do decide to sell your copy , it may be months, or even years before the right collector comes along. You might decide to offer your copy to a reputable local bookseller instead of selling it on your own. Their offer will figure in their costs and the time that they expect to have it in their stock before a buyer comes along. View Our Holiday Gift Guide We made holiday shopping easy: browse by interest, category, price or age in our bookseller curated gift guide. Shop Now. Book value: How much is your book worth? Fill out this form with enough information to get a list of comparable copies. Find Copies of Your Book You can narrow down the search results by selecting the filters in the search results to see only Hardcovers, First Editions, Signed Copies, etc. Keyword or ISBN. First Editions. Signed Books. Find Books Advanced search.

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