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In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic... read more
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Falsely accused of rape, Lester goes on the prowl in a typically beautifully written, but starkly cold and unforgiving landscape forged from the fires of McCarthy's mind.
Characters/People edit
- Lester Ballard: A confused, insane jumble of elemental human needs.
First Sentence edit
They came like a caravan of carnival folk up through the swales of broomstraw and across the hill in the morning sun, the truck rocking and pitching in the ruts and the musicians on chairs in the truckbed teetering and tuning their instruments, the fat man with guitar grinning and gestering to others in a car behind and bending to give a note to the fiddler who turned a fiddlepeg and listened with a wrinkled face.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Cormac McCarthy (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Tom Stechschulte (Narrator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1974
ISBN: 978-0394487717
Page Count: 197
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1974
ISBN: 978-0394487717
Page Count: 197
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- Dewey: 813.54
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- Cormac McCarthy's Website: author's website
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