McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-

Child of God / Cormac McCarthy. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1993. - 197 p. ; 21 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0679728740 : $10.00 ($13.00 Can.) 9780679728740

LCCN: 92050587

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
Psychopaths.--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Tennessee--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Psychological fiction.