The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
As seen here.
“Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night.” Page 17.
There’s always some elegiac about McCarthy’s prose, like Death lurks around the corner.
“When he looked back the old man had set out with his cane, tapping his way, dwindling slowly on the road behind them like some storybook peddler from an antique time, dark and bent and spider thin and soon to vanish forever.” Page 77.
While it’s a character, one has to wonder.
Quite sparse, but one of the better “road” epics. Right.
#Fiction
3 Trackbacks and Pingbacks