Title: A view from England
Product review: I'm not a Cormac McCarthy mindreader so all of the following may be rubbish, but here's my take on this book:- The whole book is entirely a metaphor. There's nothing literal or factual in it at all. We can't determine whether it's the aftermath of a nuclear or environmental catastrophe because the question is simply immaterial because the literal landscape and the literal journey don't exist. It's a story the author wants you to take as a parable. The landscape is dismal because the landscape and tribulations that can beset your own soul can be dismal. The man is you, and the boy is the fire within you that you have to hold, nurture, and, eventually pass on without any agreement from you. In stoking this fire you are stoking the fire that God himself put in you. It is his unconditional caring for the boy, in his caring for the fire, which makes the father human, and seperates him, and by implication, you, from the beasts whether the beasts have four legs or two.
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