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Review by Sam Adams, eMusic
McCarthy's bleakest, most harrowing and most intimate novel
In the ash-strewn world of a post-apocalyptic U.S., a father and son trudge their way towards the coast in Cormac McCarthy's bleak, ascetic novel. In the grip of permanent nuclear winter, the western U.S. has become like something out of Mad Max. Roving bands of scavengers patrol the few remaining roads, searching for victims to rob, rape and eventually eat. Although the unnamed father tells his small boy that they're the "good guys," they seem to be the only ones left, the last vestige of civilization in a land bereft of hope. McCarthy's characteristically laconic prose is as immaculate as shards of bone, scattered across the lifeless terrain like the remains of some long-dead species. McCarthy's most harrowing novel is also his most intimate and spiritual, posing the question of whether faith is the last bulwark against despair, or merely a fool's inability to accept the end when it comes.
© 2006 by M-71, Ltd.
In the ash-strewn world of a post-apocalyptic U.S., a father and son trudge their way towards the coast in Cormac McCarthy's bleak, ascetic novel. In the grip of permanent nuclear winter, the western U.S. has become like something out of Mad Max. Roving bands of scavengers patrol the few remaining roads, searching for victims to rob, rape and eventually eat. Although the unnamed father tells his small boy that they're the "good guys," they seem to be the only ones left, the last vestige of civilization in a land bereft of hope. McCarthy's characteristically laconic prose is as immaculate as shards of bone, scattered across the lifeless terrain like the remains of some long-dead species. McCarthy's most harrowing novel is also his most intimate and spiritual, posing the question of whether faith is the last bulwark against despair, or merely a fool's inability to accept the end when it comes.
© 2006 by M-71, Ltd.
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