Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in ... was in East Tennessee and its parallels with Child of God, it seems likely that McCarthy was familiar with the case and drew on ...

Cormac McCarthy's third novel, Child of God, follows Lester Ballard, an abandoned, hopeless man who turns to violence and serial murder as he loses his grip on his sanity. The story goes back and ...

Cormac McCarthy, who passed away last year ... "You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you." Child of God ...