Child of God
New York, NY : Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1993.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage International edition.
Description: 197 pages ; 21 cm
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
Contents:
Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that pumbs the depths of human degradation. Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard -- a violent, dispossessed man who haunts the hill country of East Tennessee -- is released from jail and allowed to roam at will, preying on the population with his strange lusts.
Subjects:
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
Psychopaths -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Tennessee -- Fiction.
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
Psychopaths -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Tennessee -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780679728740
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F McCarthy | Wheatley (Shandon) | Fiction | In |
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"Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1973"--Title page verso.