num_pages: 197
description: Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young blackwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with his strange lusts.
language: English
title: Child of God
titlecomplete: Child of God
characters: Lester Ballard
genres: Fiction, American, Gothic, Crime, Horror, Literature, Novels, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 43136
places: Tennessee
publisher: Picador