Much of the book is driven by a first-person internal
monologue that has -- as far as I recall - no dialogue in it
whatsoever. I confess I didn't notice much of the rest of the
book to be 'almost exclusively' dialogue either. And I don't
think McCarthy's dialogue is particularly taut (he's quite
happy to write dialogue that doesn't advance plot). Perhaps
the reviewer meant 'In comparison with' rather than 'In
contrast to'. Otherwise, very odd observations (to my mind,
at least).
Al
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Burridge" <
stephen.burridge@gmail.com> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, November
09, 2007 2:22 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: No Country for
Old Men (the movie)
Rick Groen in The Globe and Mail gave it a rave.
Excerpt:
"In contrast to the baroquely wordy books that cemented his
reputation (the Faulknerian locutions of Suttree, the
Biblical cadences of Blood Meridian), this one is succinctly
plotted and powered almost exclusively by taut
dialogue."
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