Child of God

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian , Child of God and The Passenger . Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses , The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89. Klappentext By Cormac McCarthy, 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.‘McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters’ Village Voice Zusammenfassung Brutal and disturbing, this is a novel that examines the darkest shades of human experience with dignity and grace.

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A powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action. Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Cormac McCarthy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780330510950
• ISBN: 978-0-330-51095-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Picador
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, Tennessee, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1960 to c 1970, Appalachian Mountains, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction