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    Up Jumps the Devil

    By Michael Poore

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    “The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart, and the myriad ways there are for it to break. I love this book. Michael Poore writes like an angel.”
    —Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish

    John Scratch, the Devil himself, is the protagonist in this stunningly imaginative, sharp, funny, and tender novel, as he tricks, teases, and prods America to greatness in the hope of luring his lost love back down to Earth from Heaven. Up Pops the Devil is fiction with humor and heart, the kind of hilarious, off-beat, and original reading experience that fans of Chris Moore, Joe Hill, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jim Shepard would sell their souls for—a brilliant blending of the occult and the outrageous starring the anti-hero of anti-heroes, the one and only Prince of Darkness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 3, 2012
    ISBN9780062064424
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    Up Jumps the Devil
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    Michael Poore

    Michael Poore’s work has appeared in the Southern Review, the Carolina Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fiction, StoryQuarterly, and Glimmer Train and has been nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. His 2009 story “Blood Dauber,” written with Nebula Award nominee Ted Kosmatka, appeared in Asimov’s and has been nominated for the prestigious Sturgeon Award. It also won the Reader’s Choice Award and was selected for inclusion in the 2010 Year’s Best Science Fiction anthology. Up Jumps the Devil is his first novel.

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    • 4/5
      An interesting read. Clever, funny, and occasionally moving. This is a book best read quickly as it jumps around a lot. Dates, locations, etc. You could easily get lost if you let it sit too long.
    • 5/5
      So very good. The person who recommended this did so for my love of Gilligan's Wake, and how right she was. It is excellent and funny and wry and a little sacrilegious if you're into that sort of thing. The Devil packs his pipe not with tobacco but field mice. He is made of wood. He has a thing to say about Robert Johnson, Woodstock, and reality television. He can be swayed by love. God stole his girlfriend. So good.
    • 3/5
      Although frequently amusing, it mostly just reminded me of how awful people are to each other and the precariousness of life.
    • 4/5
      This is a very original story about, well the devil. What if the devil does what he does because he actually wants the best for for the human race, and considers earth his planet not God's. Up Jumps the Devil takes this idea and follows it through history. It also tracks 3 individuals who sell their soul to them for fame and fortune assigning them to different career paths with mixed results. This is a very original entertaining book.
    • 5/5
      This is one hell of a clever first novel. The character John Scratch is everywhere in this book—because he's The Devil. He finds his way into the lives of so many people: causing General Washington to get tough with the British, being outfoxed by Benjamin Franklin, having his way in ancient Egypt, and trading fame and fortune for different people's souls left and right. In the beginning, the book goes to a different character with practically every chapter, before it starts to center on a young band, whose members (Zachary, Memory, and Fish) sell their souls for fame, and it works out quite bizarrely in the end. Imagine that?! One of my favorite stories in the book, is the back and forth between him and GOD. As you've probably heard, they just don't seem to be able to get along and Poore really shines in how he frames the story. He shines in most of the stories, as he combines a great deal of history and mythology with his fiction writing—and it all gets stirred together in his very inventive, twisted and hilarious way. He really has his way with everything. If I was currently working in a bookstore, I would be hand-selling this novel to every reader around that appreciates originality.
    • 3/5
      Michael Poore is a skillful writer, and his new novel, "Up Jumps the Devil," is a good book. There's not much of a plot to this droll narrative that's mainly about John Scratch (a/k/a the Devil) and a musical trio with whom he forges a Faustian bargain just before the 1969 Woodstock music festival. At times, the book reads more like a diary or journal, skipping back and forth in time as Scratch confronts the nature of love gained and lost and perhaps gained again between himself and the inconstant soul mate of his endless life, and between himself and humanity (particularly humanity as represented by the birth and development of America over four centuries). So long as the dearth of a gripping plot is forgiven, there's much to recommend this novel. Poore's well-developed principal characters are sufficiently flawed to be interesting, though far from consistently endearing. After the woe of thinking about them subsides, Scratch's pointed observations about the human condition in a celebrity-obsessed culture insatiable for immediate gratification while drowning in incessantly vacuous so-called reality programming are frequently funny, and always provocative. Scratch is an astute dealer in bartering human souls in "Up Jumps the Devil," but after all's said and done America's is the soul whose price even the Devil can't quite put his claw on.