"Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy *****

• Audiobook
• US author
• Originally published 1973
• Setting:  hills of East Tennessee 
• Character:  Lester Ballard......ignorant, impulsive, impoverished, isolated, and....innocent....primitive prdator.....child of god?
• Review:   Clearly one of the great writers of our generation!  Meet Lester Ballard of east Tennessee....ignorant, impulsive, impoverished, isolated, emotionally needy, and....innocent....primitive predator.....and child of god? I think Lester is McCarthy's everyman.  It is painful to follow his tracks in this story, primarily because he acts out all that is uncivilized, unsocialized, and dark about being human.  Not easy to read because Lester is not easy to love, yet I loved the character and the story.