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Title: This was my first...
Review: All of the reviews on this book offer a reasonably accurate description of plot and characterso I'll just add this info. When Cormac McCarthy was a young boy, perhaps 5 or 6, his fathermoved from the upper east coast to east Tn to become an attorney with the rapidly expandingTVA system. My romantic side wants to believe that Cormac must have joined his father on manytrips out into the hills of the area around Knoxville and surrounding counties growing up.His descriptions of the countryside and the people in that region are portrayed in a way thatmakes them at once transparent as well as densely opaque. All of his writing has an edge thatis difficult to define but his descriptions of the lay of the land, the light, the texture ofthe seasons, as well as the people themselves always move toward some dark end. It's thecomplexity of paring down his characters that they become multidimensional, all too human, andfinally unexpectedly crazy.
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