![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The most heavily plotted in McCarthy's corpus, No Country is a tale of contingencies resulting from Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss' stumbling upon a drug deal gone bad and thus 2.4 million dollars, which he takes. ![]() Still robust at seventy-two, he should range far beyond nine novels, since according to Richard Woodward's recent interview with McCarthy in Vanity Fair, this book is "one of four or five McCarthy novels that exist in various drafts, was simply the first that he was ready to part with." Granted, weaker McCarthy arguably bests the strongest writing of most other authors. In my estimation, though, it ranks ninth not only chronologically but also artistically in his novelistic canon. Indeed, the book offers ample literary reward for McCarthy aficionados and neophytes, especially if reread. Its release tempts one to say that after a seven-year gap between published works, he has broken through a literary parallel to the famous "unlucky ninth symphony" that snared so many musical composers and left them finished before their symphonies were. Likely the most anticipated adult literary writing of the year, No Country for Old Men is Cormac McCarthy's ninth novel. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. ![]()
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