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Child of God

Child of God

by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy plumbs the depths of human degradation in Child of God, his most brutally violent, shocking work. From the author of Blood Meridian and The Road.1960s, Tennessee. Lester Ballard is a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman, dispossessed on his ancestral land. Homeless, indulging in voyeurism, he is accused of rape.When he is released from jail, he begins to haunt the hilly landscape - preying upon its population, unleashing his impulse for sexualised violence.Commonplace humanity becomes grotesque and, as the story hurtles toward its unforgettable conclusion, McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with empathy and lyricism.'A powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action' - Sunday TimesPraise for Cormac McCarthy:'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Published 2024
ISBN 9781035039012
Genre Fiction
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Suttree

Suttree

by Cormac McCarthy

« Le pêcheur s’apprêtait à partir lorsque quelqu’un dans la foule le prit par le coude. Salut, Suttree. Il se retourna. Salut, Joe, dit-il. Tu l’as vu, toi ? Non. Y paraît qu’il a sauté hier soir. On a retrouvé ses chaussures sur le pont. Ils restèrent là à regarder le mort. » Depuis sa sortie de prison, Cornelius Suttree subsiste sur les berges de la rivière Tennessee. Sa vie est une longue errance ponctuée de bagarres, d’alcool, de stratégies pour se nourrir ou pour éviter de retourner derrière les barreaux. Il croise des prédicateurs, des gamins voleurs, des âmes perdues livrées à elles-mêmes, comme lui. Violent et poétique, ce roman est un des livres majeurs de la littérature américaine. Cormac McCarthy est l’auteur de nombreux romans dont Méridien de sang, Le Grand Passage, No Country for Old Men, et La Route, consacré par le prix Pulitzer en 2007. Ses deux derniers livres, Le Passager et Stella Maris ont créé l’événement dans le monde entier. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Guillemette Belleteste et Isabelle Reinharez.

Published 2026
ISBN 9782823623796
Genre Fiction

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