Part crime story, part metaphysical exploration, the Pulitzer-prize-winning author’s first novel since “The Road” is a fascinating but sometimes uneasy mash-up of styles and ideas.
once made a strong claim about the power of the novel. The form, he said, can, “encompass all the various disciplines and interests of humanity.” While McCarthy and Jane Austen are not exactly kindred spirits, Austen wrote something similar in a famous passage in.
The word “dark” doesn’t begin to capture the grimness of the novel’s humor. Asked by a detective whether a man who has just committed suicide was a troublemaker, the waitress at a bar he frequented replies: “All I can say is that he never done nothin like this before.” Another character, staring out the window at the frozen bleakness of a Chicago winter, remarks, “Life. What can you say? It’s not for everybody.
Like Shakespeare’s Prince Hal, Bobby is a gifted son fleeing the legacy of a powerful father by mingling with charismatic drunks and wastrels. The Falstaffian jests and antics of Bobby’s friends form a sort of rowdy counterpoint to his own haunted solitude. They also give a necessary touch of color and levity to an aesthetic canvas that is otherwise bleak and spectral.
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