About the book: year / Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, author of the widely acclaimed Border Trilogy, is a gripping and chilling novel that plunges into the very depths of humanity degradation. Lester Ballard, a reclusive young man from a rural outback, bitter and lonely, exiled from the land of his ancestors, is released from prison and begins to wander through the mountains of East Tennessee. To realize his most perverted fantasies, he begins to hunt local residents. McCarthy turns banal episodes of human life - in rural houses, shops, in the forest - into stunning scenes filled with comedy and grotesqueness. And as the story approaches its inevitable conclusion, he shows even the most vile aspects of human life with dignity, humor and his characteristic lyrical brightness.