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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (1993, Paperback, Reprint) 
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (1993, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (1993, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1993-08-01
Series: Vintage International Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679728740
ISBN-13: 9780679728740
Product ID: EPID558176
Description: Cormac 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...
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Synopsis
Cormac 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.

Details
Publication Date:1993-08-01
Series:Vintage International Series
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:8.0 oz

Publisher's Note
A 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.

Industry Reviews
"McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters."
Kammen

"[R]are, spare, precise yet poetic prose."
Jacobs

"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...."
Salon - Mary Gaitskill (11/15/1999)

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