From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning novel The Road
In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballardāa violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rapeāhaunts 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 lyrical brilliance.
āLike the novelists he admiresāMelville, Dostoyevsky, FaulknerāCormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves.āāWashington Post
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning novel The Road
In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballardāa violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rapeāhaunts 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 lyrical brilliance.
āLike the novelists he admiresāMelville, Dostoyevsky, FaulknerāCormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves.āāWashington Post