Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. They have nothing just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-and each other. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master.author, with some dubbing it the perfect example of the Great American Novel. However, it has gone onto garner massive acclaim since its publication, and is often considered one of the greatest-ever novels by a U.S.
The extremely violent book wasn't initially received well. Based on semi-historical events, the book tracks the Kid's life as he gets intertwined into the westward American expansion of the mid-1850s, and stumbles onto a gang of rangers on the U.S.-Mexican border that kill and scalp Native Americans. However, McCarthy's novel, first published in 1985 as Blood Meridian or, the Evening Redness in the West, is set in the American west and follows a fictional Tennessee 14-year-old known as the Kid. Significant details on the film remain slim, with no cast having been announced yet. The project will be directed by John Hillcoatand based on the iconic book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. Now, Deadline reports that New Regency is slated to adapt the Western Blood Meridian into a feature film. There have been no shortage of Westerns lately, as the genre seems to have gotten a resurgence in recent years.
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