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Dec 27, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A century from now, McCarthy will stand with the likes of Melville, Twain and Faulkner. Wake up to the best-kept secret of American fiction in the past thirty years! The gripping prose echoes early Hemingway, and the lean, swift (by his standards) pastoral tale recalls an American Southwest, lyrically and magically evoked, in the twilight of its wilderness. Written in a sweeping, picaresque form, in a language of a beauty and power seldom seen, it has rollicking physical action, horses, gunplay and romance, yet ultimately it is a never sentimental lament for a passing way of life. Don't miss his dark and savage dress rehearsal, Blood Meridian.