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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Cormac McCarthy: The Passenger Oct 25, Stella Maris Dec 6
 
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Criminal Minded
Jan 4, 2005

Spring break forever
I had the good fortune to have early access to review galleys of each of the two new novels. I've already read The Passenger, although I'm saving Stella Maris, as I've spent the past couple months-ish since first finishing The Passenger revisiting all of McCarthy's other work, to better appreciate and contextualize the new ones. I will say that my gut instinct on first finishing The Passenger was that fans of Suttree (my favorite, and possibly my favorite novel period) will be especially fond of it. There are many similarities, both superficial and more significant/thematically resonant, that lead me to say so, but I'll spare further thoughts for when I've had more opportunity to go back through and take proper notes on all the stuff now that it's fresh in my mind. I would highly recommend taking this chance to tackle McCarthy's body of work if you can find the time and energy, it's not often one of the great artists comes back with a rich new work.

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Cormac McCarthy: The Passenger Oct 25, Stella Maris Dec 6