NP - Cormac McCarthy's newest novel

[Ghetta Life]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/books/18kaku.html

Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, "No Country for Old Men," gets off to a 
riveting start as a sort of new wave, hard-boiled Western: imagine Quentin 
Tarantino doing a self-conscious riff on Sam Peckinpah and filming a fast, 
violent story about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff and an average 
Joe who stumbles across a leather case filled with more than $2 million in 
hot drug money.

Intercut with this gripping tale, however, are the sheriff's portentous 
meditations on life and fate and the decline and fall of Western 
civilization. These lugubrious passages, reminiscent of the most pretentious 
sections of earlier McCarthy novels like "The Crossing," gain ascendancy as 
the book progresses and gradually weigh down the quicksilver suspense of the 
larger story.

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