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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (Paperback, 2007)

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Title: Child of God (Picador Books) Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Publisher: Picador ISBN 13: 9780330306430. Books will be free of page markings.

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By 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. `Demands its reader's attention from the opening sentence' Newsweek `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 'His prose, unfailingly beautiful and exact, carries us into a dreamworld of astonishing and violent revelation. It is a frightening, entrancing world, which we must finally recognize as our own' Tobias Wolff 'McCarthy is a powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action' Sunday Times