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This is one of Steinbeck’s earlier works and takes place in California. (If you have read East of Eden it is the same scenery just a different era.) This novel deals with a man’s dream of finding his place in the world, his idea of God, and his relationship with the earth. This novel is written in a style very similar to Cormac McCarthy or I guess I should say that I can now see Steinbeck in Cormac McCarthy’s work. The way in which Steinbeck depicts God is beautiful and severe (Old Testament God mixed with paganism) and the ending is horrifyingly beautiful. The novel centers around a tree that the main character Joseph Waine embodies the dead spirit of his father in and I kept on getting the horrifying image of the tree in the ending of Child of God by McCarthy stuck in my mind throughout this novel. This is a short novel and should only take a couple of days to read but shows the diversity of our countries best novelist. Yes, I said our best. "People of Athens, I see that you are in every respect religiously exact. For as I walked about and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even came upon an altar inscribed, 'To a God Unknown.' Now what you thus worship unknowingly I would proclaim to you" (Acts 17:23).