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Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
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Intimate, prestige, bleak and contemplative.
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 197
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Peter Smith Pub Inc, Random House
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English, Italian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788806168957
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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. He is known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary American writers.
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