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- Publisher: Random House Inc
- ISBN: 0679728740
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100063086
- Release Date: August 1, 1993
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #57277 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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- #678 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Cormac McCarthy (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Child of God"Browse more products related to "Cormac McCarthy"Review"The travails of a homeless, retarded necrophiliac killer roaming the hills of Kentucky....Not only do you take this ghoul seriously, once you're halfway through the book, you realize you're on his side. Without psychologizing, or even getting into the protagonist's completely nonreflective head, McCarthy makes us understand him...." "McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters." "[R]are, spare, precise yet poetic prose." Publisher's noteA taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation, this is the story of Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man, falsely accused of rape--who haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail, preying on the population with his strange lusts. Out of print since 1984. AnnotationCormac McCarthy third novel, stained in the dark ink of Faulkner and Conrad, and set in rural Tennessee, tells the story of an unsavory loner named Lester Ballard, a murderer and necrophilic. As disturbing as these qualities are, what is perhaps even more unsettling is how McCarthy draws us into Ballard's mind, seeping us in his craven soul, and forcing us to see him with sympathy as another one of God's children. After his family farm is auctioned off, Lester lives in an abandoned shack, haunting the fringes of society like an animal, but, like Frankenstein's creature, his attempts at making human contact are rebuffed, until he finally descends into a maze of mountainous caves, a physical parallel to his brutal descent into violence and madness. Though the content of the story is horrifying, McCarthy's prose is lyrical, lapidary, and transcendent, creating an uncanny disharmony with the details of Lester's life. If You Enjoy "Child of God (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
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