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Child of God. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
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Description for Child of God. Cormac McCarthy
paperback. McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters' Village Voice Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Varios
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330510950
SKU
9780330510950
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About Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film ... Read more
Reviews for Child of God. Cormac McCarthy
A powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action.
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
McCarthy charts the terrible ... Read more
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
McCarthy charts the terrible ... Read more