Child of God

<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>