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by: Cormac McCarthy  List Price: $31.25 Amazon.com's Price: $28.12 You Save: $3.13 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780844667508 ISBN: 0844667501 Label: Peter Smith Publisher Manufacturer: Peter Smith Publisher Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1994-06 Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher Studio: Peter Smith Publisher Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: "Scuttling down the mountain with the thing on his back he looked like a man beset by some ghast succubus, the dead girl riding him with legs bowed akimbo like a monstrous frog." Child of God must be the most sympathetic portrayal of necrophilia in all of literature. The hero, Lester Ballard, is expelled from his human family and ends up living in underground caves, which he peoples with his trophies: giant stuffed animals won in carnival shooting galleries and the decomposing corpses of his victims. Cormac McCarthy's much-admired prose is suspenseful, rich with detail, and yet restrained, even delicate, in its images of Lester's activities. So tightly focused is the story on this one "child of God" that it resembles a myth, or parable. "You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you.... A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history and will have it." Product Description: 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. "Demands its reader's attention from the opening sentence" - "Newsweek". "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. "His prose, unfailingly beautiful and exact, carries us into a dreamworld of astonishing and violent revelation. It is a frightening, entrancing world, which we must finally recognize as our own" - Tobias Wolff. "McCarthy is a powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action" - Sunday Times. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good, but not his bestI've made the mistake of reading Cormac McCarthy in reverse chronological order, having started with "No Country for Old Men", "The Road", the Border Trilogy and Blood Meridian before picking up "Child of God". I enjoyed the book but it makes apparent how McCarthy has grown and evolved as an author and storyteller. Many of the elements I loved in the later books are here only embryonic and not fully realized. McCarthy paints a landscape that is disturbing and dangerous, and made more so being very ... Read More Rating:  - Outstanding !Great story about the struggle between good & evil. I love McCarthy's lyrical prose. This book deserves to be read out loud in order to get the full impact of the story. I could not put this novel down & read it the 1st time in 2 nights, then went back & read it again. The protagonist, Lester Ballard, is a study of pure psychological evil. This book would make a great horror movie. Ballard is such an ordinary person that his actions surpass Hannibal Lecter's ! Rating:  - Terrible...A waste of beautiful prose and dialog. Disturbing for the sake of disturbing. Lacking any of the emotion that has made the disturbance in McCarthy's other novels lead to insight and in many cases, redemption. Rating:  - depressingIf you are feeling good about anything do not read this book...but if you have had some hard times and like beautiful writing..go ahead.. The main character in this book is in such a terrible mess and always goes the wrong way..the book will make your life seem like a piece of cake. Not for youth , not for the shy and not for me. Rating: - Good, but not McCarthy's bestAll of McCarthy's writing is at times disturbing, but this book is perhaps the most twisted of the six I have read. The main character is a Tennessee hermit, Lester Ballard, similar to though less refined than McCarthy's Cornelius Suttree. In the beginning of the book, Ballard is evicted from his land and takes up residence in an abandoned house in the woods, then later in a cave. He roams the woods like a specter, hunting rifle under his arm, scavenging for discarded items he can use in his home. ... Read More 
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