Just Like Yourself, Perhaps
Hopefully Not! Reviewing Cormac McCarthy’s Gothic Classic ‘Child of God’
Cormac McCarthy’s gothic classic Child of God begins with a jab. When introducing the protagonist, Lester Ballard, McCarthy identifies him as “a child of God much like yourself perhaps.”
Better hope not.
Struck by the Jab
Within moments of meeting Ballard, we find him threatening a man tasked …
