It’s definitely his most personal book, he spent many years writing it and it feels like everything he had written before that point was just a prelude to Suttree. It also helps that it’s less unrelentingly bleak than his other work, for instance in the episode of the ‘moonlight melonmounter’. He’s always had an impressive way with words
The Passenger is similar in tone but very different in style. Less of the stylized biblical poetic language and more focus on dialogue and character. Haven’t read the followup yet but I have a feeling things won’t be wrapped up neatly. They never are in McCarthy books
The Passenger is similar in tone but very different in style. Less of the stylized biblical poetic language and more focus on dialogue and character. Haven’t read the followup yet but I have a feeling things won’t be wrapped up neatly. They never are in McCarthy books