Title: McCarthy is grossly overrate, to judge by The Crossing
Product review: THE CROSSING is the first of the Cormac McCarthy novels I've read; I am rather confident it will be the last. This writer is grossly overrated. His style is that of someone who wants to convince us that he is just an ol' cowboy story-teller, never really tried, you know, to be a writer-type feller. Frightened to death by Faulkner, drunk on Hemingway, his prose is overwrought, outlandishly affected. Much of his stuff wouldn't get past the admissions process in any respectable school of writing. It is quite amazing to me that this sort of fraudulent material passes muster with supposedly sophisticated agents, editors, and publishers. National Book Award? God help us!
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