Dispossessed of his Tennessee farm by a county auctioneer, Lester Ballard descends into ever more extreme isolation and violence in the surrounding hills. McCarthy presents him as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps" - the novel's most unsettling provocation. He is shaped by dispossession, loneliness, and a world that has never once offered him a place in it.
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Dispossessed of his Tennessee farm; subsequently lives as an outcast in the surrounding hills