five-cent review #3
(reviews in five sentences or less)
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Father-son survival tale set in all-too-real post-apocalyptic America. No one writes like McCarthy – spare and vivid, like reading a ghost. His stunning images bleached of sentimentality: “... the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.” Every word obeys, some do tricks. Pity the next book on your nightstand.
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Father-son survival tale set in all-too-real post-apocalyptic America. No one writes like McCarthy – spare and vivid, like reading a ghost. His stunning images bleached of sentimentality: “... the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.” Every word obeys, some do tricks. Pity the next book on your nightstand.
posted by caleb d. at 5:48 PM
2 Comments:
Superb...
You hear that the Coen Bros. are doing No Country For Old Men? Another hell of a read.
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