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Child of God

novel by McCarthy

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  • Cormac McCarthy
    In Cormac McCarthy: A wandering writer’s life

    …of his two subsequent novels, Child of God (1974), about a lonely man’s descent into depravity, and Suttree (1979), about a man who ekes out a living from a river in Knoxville that symbolizes the elemental forces of life, nature, and death. The latter novel is regarded as McCarthy’s most…

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