Child of God (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early 1960’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Rural or country life, Mental illness, Rape, Farms, farmers, or farming, Mountain life, Handicapped
- Locales: Sevier County, TN
Places Discussed
*Eastern Tennessee. Remote and harsh hill country area dominated by woods, rivers, and fields. Evicted from his home as the result of a false charge of rape, Lester Ballard embarks on a dark journey of survival through a countryside filled with images of nature in its rawest form. It is a setting in which Ballard steadily sheds his last remaining ties to civilized conduct. Instead, he resorts to basic animal instincts as he sets out on an orgy of grotesque behaviors, including incest, infanticide, and necrophilia. With each step back from civilization, Ballard...
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