Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

those of you who follow this blog know i almost never push books, movies, or anything else entertainment or retail related... i am making an exception... i finished reading cormac mccarthy's "the road" early last evening in miami, and just now discovered that both it and mr. mccarthy have been awarded the 2007 pulitzer prize for fiction...

before dropping off to sleep last night, i tried to come up with a fitting shorthand way to describe the myriad scenes in the book, each one so jewel-perfect, so elegantly minimalist, and so devastatingly impactful, that they literally took my breath away, but i couldn't do it... the following doesn't do it either, but maybe you'll get the idea...

The famously reclusive Mr. McCarthy, 73, won for his devastating chronicle of a father and son walking alone across a post-apocalyptic America, cold, dark and strewn with corpses and ash. In her review in The New York Times,, Janet Maslin wrote, “ ‘The Road’ would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.”

i've read a number of his other books, and, i have to say, imho, he is one of the best writers i have ever read, bar-none...

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