6/12/2023 0 Comments Book review all the pretty horses![]() (“No Country for Old Men” opens with a prisoner strangling a sheriff’s deputy with the chain of his handcuffs.) Others think his work bombastic, pretentious, or claustrophobically male-locked: McCarthy has a tendency to omit half the human race from serious scrutiny. Some readers are alienated by his novels’ punctual appointments with blood-soaked violence. There is intense disagreement about McCarthy’s literary status, which his new novel, “No Country for Old Men” (Knopf $24.95), an unimportant, stripped-down thriller, will only aggravate. He is also one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner. McCarthy is a colossally gifted writer, certainly one of the greatest observers of landscape. ![]() To read Cormac McCarthy is to enter a climate of frustration: a good day is so mysteriously followed by a bad one. ![]()
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