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First edition/printing with "First Edition" printed on the copyright page. The book is in NEAR FINE condition with a neat previous owner's signature to the front free end paper and a small sticker shadow to the top of the front pastedown.The NEAR FINE price-clipped jacket has some fading to the red lettering on the spine. An attractive copy of the true first edition of the author's third book.

Cormac McCarthy's 'Child of God' tells the story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whose life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. McCarthy depicts the life of a violent young outcast and serial killer in 1960s Appalachian Tennessee. Though the narrative is stark, the protagonist's isolation and disaffection are depicted with empathy by McCarthy, whose prose reveals the layers of humanity in even the most desolate and detestable characters.