In this taut, chilling novel from the bestselling, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of The Road, Lester Ballard--a violent,
dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of
East Tennessee when he is released from jail.
While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects
of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.
"Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac
McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any
single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves."
--Washington Post
Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella
Maris.