cormac mccarthy wins the pulitzer prize
Cormac McCarthy
I wrote about The Road late last year and highly recommended it. I still do, so it was a great pleasure to read that McCarthy had won the Pulitzer for it.
“Cormac McCarthy has won this year’s Pulitzer prize for “distinguished fiction by an American author” with his bleak vision of a post-apocalyptic America, The Road. The 73-year-old wins $10,000 for his tale of a father and son on a journey south in a world where a disaster has occurred, reducing nature to a nuclear-grey winter and humans to savage, scavenging cannibals. While the landscape is scorched and some of the set-piece encounters almost Beckettian, the nightmare vision is leavened by McCarthy’s stripped-down poetic language and his description of the powerful and poignant relationship between the boy and his father.”
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May 7th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
I don’t get why people think this was such a great book. Blood Meridian, All The Pretty Horses, The Crossing….Those were great books. Cormac McCarthy is the William Faulkner of this generation but this book was one of his most boring, non-descriptive narratives ever.
May 8th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Definitely not as colossal in breadth as Blood Meridian but still an intense read. His ability to switch prose styles is unique and the spare narrative of The Road is what struck me. I guess the Pulitzer team don’t get many chances to award the prize so he got it for this one but it still acknowledges how great a writer he is.
May 8th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
thanks for the tip. i just picked this up. is reading real books web 3.0?
May 8th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
web 3.02 I think….
May 10th, 2007 at 9:31 am
yikes. i’m almost done with this book. i’m scared to finish it!
May 10th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Oh my! Then you have to move on to what others have called his masterpiece, Blood Meridian…now that’s scary