Title: A privilege to read
Product review: There's little to add to the other reviews, but I felt privileged to read this novel. The prose is the best I've seen from any living author.McCarthy is quite the word collector. Many of the unusual words he used do not appear in my large dictionary, but other sources verified them as real words. Sometimes, however, I wonder if his editors are so in awe of McCarthy's prose that they are afraid to change anything, so they leave a word like "slutlamp" when maybe it should have been the more common (and contextually appropriate) "slitlamp." When "cant" is clearly meant to be "can't" in dialogue, did the editors feel they couldn't correct it?McCarthy strips away everything that is not essential, including exposition, punctuation, character names, and quotation marks. Bold stuff.
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