bIn this taut, chilling novel from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of iThe Road, i Lester Ballardb--ba violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.b pWhile telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. pLike the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves. --iWashington Posti pbLook for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, iThe Passenger, icoming October '22.br b