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291 pages ; 21 cm.680L Lexile
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Western Fiction/Historical Western
Authors: Cormac McCarthy
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Child of God is a psychological thriller by Cormac McCarthy that centers on a man falsely accused of rape who, after his release, navigates a bleak, rural landscape while confronting the extremes of human depravity.

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A woman discovers her brother, who abandoned her baby son, has left him in the woods and claims natural death. She embarks alone on a quest to find the child, facing harsh landscapes and unsettling strangers along the way.

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In 1951 Knoxville, Tennessee, a misfit fisherman named Cornelius "Buddy" Suttree retreats to the Tennessee River to live among drifters, avoiding city life and connecting with the river’s rugged people.

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📘 The crossing
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The Crossing follows brothers Billy and Boyd Parham as they journey across the New Mexico frontier before World War II, encountering wilderness, humanity, and the mythic realms of wolves and dusty plains.

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