Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

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Picador
25 June 2024

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Picador Collection

Cormac McCarthy plumbs the depths of human degradation in Child of God, his most brutally violent, shocking work. From the author of Blood Meridian and The Road.

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.

When he is released from jail, he begins to haunt the hilly landscape - preying upon its population, unleashing his impulse for sexualised violence.

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.

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

Praise for Cormac McCarthy:

'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren

'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series

'[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 Brokeback Mountain

By: Cormac McCarthy
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 138g
ISBN: 9781035039012
ISBN 10: 103503901X
Series: Picador Collection
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 25 June 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

The novels of the American writer Cormac McCarthy received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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. He died in June 2023, in New Mexico.

Reviews for Child of God

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