Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Amy Greene, Bloodroot, Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Two books have really stood out in the past few weeks. Bloodroot by Amy Greene is a beautifully written novel, beating the pants off other female writers’ take on Appalachia. This one captures the place, the people, and the scent of the woods like no other. It took me about twenty or so pages to trust the narration, as it’s told in first person from various characters’ viewpoints, but once you get the rhythm of the novel there’s just no putting it down.
The second book is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I’d put off reading it because so much of his work is ruthlessly bloody but as soon as I started reading this I wanted to hand him the Pulitzer all over again. The tension on each page is almost unbearable at times. The love between father and son as they move through a dangerous and barren world is finely and sparingly written, and is all the more beautiful for it. McCarthy veers away from his usual style that can make an impatient reader’s head hurt, for a plain, straight-forward approach that works, and works really well. I can’t wait to read this again – once I feel like I can take the suspense, that is.
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