Child of God (Vintage International)

Cormac McCarthy

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story,Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. . While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brillia…