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All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

Started by johnlilly · 3 months ago

McCarthy is one of my favorite writers, as I’ve written about here and here and here. His prose is astounding, and the images he creates stay with you for a long time. The NY Times compares his writing favorably with Faulkner’s — and I have to say that it&%2 ... Continue reading »

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  • Sold. Going in my Amazon bucket for the next bulk order day.
  • I read this book for my senior seminar, which was thematically "medieval romance," and we examined the ways in which ATPH exhibited some of its key characteristics.

    Yes, tough prose--little punctuation--but certainly not as difficult as, say, Faulkner, though it's been compared to that quite often.

    The story itself is unimpressive to me; it resounds on a different realm than plot. I think it successfully captures the feel of the decay of the old west particularly well, though.

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