Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read in Details magazine of actuality of the rumoured Franco movie of this book. So, I knew it was time to re-read this morbid and disturbing vision of Appalachian horror. Finally something suitable as a double feature to Nekromantik and that makes "Deliverance" look like a blissful, Sunday outing. The dismal spiral of a character so dark even Faulkner would reject him from ogler to necrophile to transvestite serial murderer is a finely etched and bloody, horrid tale that is an obvious maturation of the concepts in [b:Outer Dark|40471|Outer Dark|Cormac McCarthy|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1356452527s/40471.jpg|791775].
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