By Cormac McCarthy,the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy,Child of God is a taut,chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation.
Lester Ballard,a violent,solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land,is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee,preying on the population with his strange lusts.
McCarthy transforms commonplace brushes with humanity - in homesteads,stores and in the woods - into stunning scenes of the comic and the grotesque,and as the story hurtles toward its unforgettable conclusion,depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity,humour,and characteristic lyrical brilliance.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9780330510950Number of pages: 192Weight: 142 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 16 mm
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'A powerful and talented writer,able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action.'- The Sunday Times
'A reading experience so impressive,so "new",so clearly well made that it seems almost to defy the easy aesthetic categories...Accomplished in rare,spare,precise yet poetic prose.'- New Republic
Cormac McCarthy
Best known for his multi-award-winning masterpiece The Road,Cormac McCarthy was a highly acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter,whose other bestselling works include Blood Meridian,The Border Trilogy,and No Country for Old Men.
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