Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (1993), 208 pages
Description
Fiction. Literature. Cormac McCarthy has won nearly every major literary honor, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Set in Tennessee in the 1960s, this chilling novel sees Lester Ballard become increasingly isolated from society. After taking a deceased woman as a girlfriend, he "saves her" from a fire - and his life spirals into deepening depravity.
Media reviews
But the carefully cold, sour diction of this book--whose hostility toward the reader surpasses even that of the world toward Lester--does not often let us see beyond its nasty "writing" into moments we can see for themselves, rendered. And such moments, authentic though they feel, do not much help
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a novel so lacking in human momentum or point. Show Less
Awards
Brooklyn Magazine's Literary United States (Tennessee)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1973
Physical description
208 p.; 8 inches
ISBN
0679728740 / 9780679728740