Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy turns up in Breathed claiming to be Satan himself, everybody assumes he is just a runaway. But when strange things start happening to the townsfolk, there are some who start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be.
Winner of "The Guardian's" Not the Booker Prize, this is a wonderfully original, unsettling and deeply moving novel that delivers both the shock of fully realised reality and the deep resonance of parable.
