Child of God

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Author: McCarthy, Cormac Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 8 February 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of the Picador Collection series.Paperback | 192 pages130 x 197 x 14 | 140g Cormac McCarthy plumbs the depths of human degradation in Child of God, his most brutally violent, shocking work. From the author of Blood Meridian and The Road.1960s, Tennessee. Lester Ballard is a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman, dispossessed on his ancestral land. Homeless, indulging in voyeurism, he is accused of rape.When he is released from jail, he begins to haunt the hilly landscape – preying upon its population, unleashing his impulse for sexualised violence.Commonplace humanity becomes grotesque and, as the story hurtles toward its unforgettable conclusion, McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with empathy and lyricism.A powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action – Sunday TimesPraise for Cormac McCarthy:‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The WrenHis prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain Show more