What+Scholars+Say

=What Scholars Say About the Book= "McCarthy is a colossally gifted writer, certainly one of the greatest observers of landscape. He is also one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner." James Wood, The New Yorker.

"McCarthy displays his usual talents. Among them: an ability to place the reader immediately in the story; a gift for revealing characters through spare dialogue; a willingness to express a traditional belief in love, honor and duty; and a genius for conveying the beauty of empty landscapes." Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY.

"Mr. McCarthy turns the elaborate cat-and-mouse game played by Moss and Chigurh and Bell into harrowing, propulsive drama, cutting from one frightening, violent set piece to another with cinematic economy and precision. In fact, No Country for Old Men would easily translate to the big screen so long as Bell's tedious, long-winded monologues were left on the cutting room floor -- a move that would also have made this a considerably more persuasive novel." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times.