Child Of God Av Cormac Mccarthy

<p><b>Cormac McCarthy plumbs the depths of human degradation in <i>Child of God</i>, his most brutally violent, shocking work. From the author of <i>Blood Meridian </i>and <i>The Road</i>.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>When he is released from jail, he begins to haunt the hilly landscape &ndash; preying upon its population, unleashing his impulse for sexualised violence.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'A powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action' &ndash; <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>&lsquo;McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute&rsquo; &ndash; Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and<i> The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' &ndash; Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' &ndash; Annie Proulx, author of <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p>