Child of God

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young blackwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with his strange lusts…..Read More
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