Description
| Product ID: | 9780330510950 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Child of God |
| Authors: | Author: Cormac McCarthy |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Brutal and disturbing, this is a novel that examines the darkest shades of human experience with dignity and grace. <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 – 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' – <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – 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' – 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' – Annie Proulx, author of <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-01-01 |
