His next novel, Child of God, was published in From to , McCarthy worked on the screenplay for a PBS film called The Gardener's Son, which premiered in A revised version of the screenplay was later published by Ecco Press/5(). Child of God is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. Narrating the life of Appalachian serial killer Lester Ballard, McCarthy’s third novel explores the themes which would become hallmarks of his work, including violence, outcast-status and an interest in the history of working-class America. · McCarthy’s outlook is as remorseless as the natural world, where survival of the fittest is the only rule that applies. There are exceptions, of course: The Road; parts of Suttree and All the Pretty Horses. And then there is Child of God, a disturbing novel with a fierce bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins.
Cormac McCarthy () Child of God, UK first edition, first printing, published by Chatto Windus. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: For James Cahill, All best wishes, Cormac McCarthy. Condition: a near fine copy without any previous owner s inscriptions, no bookplates, no stamps. Child of God is apparently based on a historical murder case in Tennessee, and McCarthy's story is anchored within a rich texture of realistic detail. Yet it is also rich in metaphysical suggestion, and with its economy of focus, pared of extraneous incident, character or subplot, it can be read as myth or parable, much like Outer Dark (). Child of God is a novel by American author Cormac bltadwin.ruing the life of Appalachian serial killer Lester Ballard, McCarthy's third novel explores the themes which would become hallmarks of his work, including violence, outcast-status and an interest in the history of working-class America.
His next novel, Child of God, was published in From to , McCarthy worked on the screenplay for a PBS film called The Gardener's Son, which premiered in A revised version of the screenplay was later published by Ecco Press. Child of God is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. Narrating the life of Appalachian serial killer Lester Ballard, McCarthy’s third novel explores the themes which would become hallmarks of his work, including violence, outcast-status and an interest in the history of working-class America. Suspenseful, spare, a quick and compelling read, Child of God is at the same time McCarthy’s most extreme challenge to the limits of propriety, perhaps outdoing even Blood Meridian in its chronicling of individual depravity. Its hero, Lester Ballard, is a murderer and necrophile, expelled from the human family and eventually living in underground caves, which he peoples with his trophies: giant stuffed animals won in carnival shooting galleries and the decomposing corpses of his several.
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