![]() ![]() ![]() What McCarthy is really great at apart from his prose and style – you probably have been familiar with if you read some of his works before – is painting a wicked and daunting villain. ![]() It’s also not as philosophical and is less essay-esque than the mentioned titles at times, although there are still many thought-provoking ideas the narrator and characters touch upon. It doesn’t lack violence and rawness, but isn’t as dark, bleak and depressing as Blood Meridian. ![]() Its pace is also faster than McCarthy’s previous novels and offers more of a coherent story – and feels less episodic – than earlier novels such as The Crossing and especially Cities of the Plain. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy With little time to take a breath apart from one character’s monologues inserted between chapters sometimes, it doesn’t waste much time: nature and landscape description is sparse and keeps to necessity only. A strong storytelling pace sets this novel apart from other works of the author. ![]()
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