NP - Cormac McCarthy's newest novel

[rich]

what she don't get is that is exactly why folks love mccarthy for
those heavy meditations
she pbly would've hated moby dick if it was published today.

rich

On 7/18/05, Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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