tidbit learned on No Country for Old men, the book

[Mark Kohut]

I have not read the book nor yet seen the movie.
I have heard that the movie follows the book closely.

tidbit learned while learning other stuff.....
 
No Country For Old Men came in as a 600-page manuscript. Cormac was asked to cut it. 
(and I say it had to be that his editor-publisher, who made him successful (with sales campaign for all the Pretty Horses) who felt it did not work. If he had, he would have had little trouble publishing it, I think.)
Unusual but Cormac respects him mightily, I guess. He cut it.
 
And, inside Knopf/RH, it is judged 'not a good book"...even as published. His weakest, they think, I think.

A-and, a consensus opinion  inside a publishing house does not make it a correct opinion necessarily
of course, as mass hypnosis and correct opinion-having often rules....

Just FYI for all you Old Men talkers......................


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