Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

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Altri dati

Formato:
Paperback
Editore:
Pan Macmillan
Anno di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
192
Dimensioni:
197 X 130
Codice EAN:
9780330510950
Generi:
Literature & Fiction, Modern Fiction
Prezzo di copertina:
£ 7,99

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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. 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 decline of Lester Ballard with passion, tenderness, eloquence, and a humour which, at its best, is attuned perfectly to the bitter wryness of the South' Times Literary Supplement

L'Autore

Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.