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Lester Ballard è un uomo violento, dal passato difficile. Avendo perso ogni cosa, vive nell'abbandono e da sempre sfida e aggredisce i cittadini del suo paese, East Tennessee. Viene incarcerato, con l'accusa di violenza carnale. Quando si scopre che non è colpevole, gli viene concessa la libertà, il permesso di vagare a piacere, razziando e depredando la popolazione con le sue strane voglie. Normali e casuali incontri per commissioni in merceria, dal maniscalco e all'emporio diventano scene di travolgente forza insieme comica e grottesca. Mentre la storia precipita verso il suo indimenticabile finale, McCarthy dipinge le realtà più sordide della vita con senso umoristico oltre che di partecipazione umana.
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- Pagine: 172
- Data di uscita: 18-07-2014
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‘ Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them. ’ There is a quote by David Foster Wallace that ‘ good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable .’ Cormac McCarthy’s trim third novel, Child of God , is an optimal example of this sentiment, as it manages to prov Leggi tutto
”The dumpkeeper had spawned nine daughters and named them out of an old medical dictionary gleaned from the rubbish he picked. Uretha, Cerebella, Hernia Sue.They moved like cats and like cats in heat attracted surrounding swains to their midden until the old man used to go out at night and fire a sh Leggi tutto
“He is small, unclean, unshaven. He moves in the dry chaff among the dust and slats of sunlight with a constrained truculence. Saxon and Celtic bloods. A child of God much like yourself perhaps.” If someone were crazed enough to breed a descendant of Fenton Breece with that of Granville Sutter from W Leggi tutto
film-of-the-book update : None other than James (I'm handsome and I can do anything ) Franco directed a version of this last year & I just saw it; and - damn, James, I hate to say this but - it was really good! And faithful! Really great performance by Scott Haze as Lester. You probably shouldn't watc Leggi tutto
Child of God: Cormac McCarthy's Outcast First edition, Random House, New York, New York, 1973 "He moves in the dry chaff among the dust and slats of sunlight with a constrained truculence. Saxon and Celtic bloods. A child of God much like yourself perhaps. The setting is Sevier County, Tennesse
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