ARGONAUT BOOKS

Brutal and disturbing, this is a novel that examines the darkest shades of human experience with dignity and grace. Reviews A powerful and talented writer, able to elicit compassion for his protagonist however terrible his action.The Sunday TimesA reading experience so impressive, so 'new', so clearly well made that it seems almost to defy the easy aesthetic categories . . . Accomplished in rare, spare, precise yet poetic prose.New RepublicMcCarthy charts the terrible decline of Lester Ballard with passion, tenderness, eloquence, and a humour which, at its best, is a...Read More