Devil Take It
Book description
Devil Take It is a sharp, darkly comic satire set against the backdrop of Trump-era Washington, D.C.
In this clever and timely moral fable, Satan arrives on the scene disguised as Dr. Grippin Fall, a psychiatrist with a peculiar diagnosis for Eustace Bogges, the editor of the Washington Oracle’s letters…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Devil Take It as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This short and piquant retelling of the Faust legend goes down a treat. Our hero is newspaperman Eustace Bogges, who handles the letters-to-the-editor feature of the fictional Washington Oracle. Overweight, prickly, vain, and intellectually astute, Booges is the sort of vivid character John Kennedy Toole might have given us if "A Confederacy of Dunces" had been set in D.C. rather than New Orleans.
Bogges’s complacency begins to unravel when he is haunted—first in reveries, then in reality—by psychiatrist Grippin Fall, who happens to be the Devil. From this latter-day Mephisto our hero learns the true story behind such momentous…