Child of GodJapanese edition of Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. The story of Lester Ballard--a dispossessed, violent psychotic sociopath man who devolves to murder and necrophilia as an effect of his absent social environment. Although his acts are horrid, the prose of the book entices strong sympathy for him and to consider that society is the monster, not Lester. Major movie released in 2013. In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. |
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