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197pp, octavo, hc w/jacket in mylar, a fantastic copy, clean red paper boards with blue cloth backstrip, slight wear to cloth spine ends, gilt titles tight binding, clean pages, sharp corners, jacket is clean and colorful, red titles on a black background with author's name in olive green, a touch of toning to the top corners of the flaps and upper corner of back cover. stated First Edition.

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.