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A loner drifts through the underworld of 1950s Knoxville, drinking, fighting, and floating the Tennessee River in a novel of Faulknerian darkness.
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Child of God
A necrophiliac cave-dweller in rural Tennessee commits unspeakable acts, and McCarthy refuses to look away or moralise.
The Orchard Keeper
A young man in 1930s east Tennessee discovers a dead man's belongings in a decaying orchard, and the mystery draws him into a world of moonshiners and outlaws.
As I Lay Dying
A poor Mississippi family transports their dead mother's body across the county for burial, and the journey becomes a darkly comic, hallucinatory odyssey.
The Sound and the Fury
Four sections, three of them narrated by the Compson brothers, one with an intellectual disability, tell the story of a Mississippi family's decline, and the fragmented telling enacts the disintegration.
Moon Palace
In 1969, Columbia student Marco Stanley Fogg inherits his late uncle's library, reads and sells it book by book until he is starving in Central Park, and a job as companion to a rich, blind, cantankerous old man named Thomas Effing leads him to his own family's secrets.
Joe
Joe Ransom, a hard-drinking ex-convict who runs a crew poisoning trees for a timber company in north Mississippi, takes on a teenage boy from a drifter family and tries to protect him from his own father.
them
Loretta Wendall and her children, Jules and Maureen, struggle through poverty and violence in Detroit from the 1930s to the riots of 1967.
Salka Valka
Salka Valka arrives as a little girl with her destitute mother in an Icelandic fishing village, where she grows up tough, poor and in thrall to the merchant who owns everything.
A Feast of Snakes
In Mystic, Georgia, during the annual rattlesnake roundup, a former high school football star stuck with a liquor-store job and a broken marriage feels the weekend's frenzy pushing him towards violence.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A slothful, brilliant, hot-dog-cart-pushing medievalist wages war against modern New Orleans in one of literature's great comic antiheroes.
Wise Blood
A young man in the rural American South is consumed by a grotesque religious vision, and the novel's dark comedy conceals a genuine theological horror.
Not a River
Three men return to a river in northern Argentina to fish for a giant stingray, and the ghosts of the one who drowned years ago circle them.