NP - Cormac McCarthy's newest novel

[Joel Katz]

....and the sky did bubble ocher...and the mexican border did shimmy like a 
whore in the backlot of kohl's....and michiko did shrink like a yellow cur 
from the cattle gun.....and michiko's world did uncouple before her beneath 
the shittimwood tree....



>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>To: Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: NP - Cormac McCarthy's newest novel
>Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:44:51 -0400
>
>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:
> >
> > 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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