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Instead of sensing an “aftertaste of tired irony,” I was deeply affected by Roth’s novel and have reflected on it for years after my first reading. Coincidently, I began to read McCarthy??s “The Road” and never finished it; however, I would never write a review without completing it. Give “American Pastoral” a chance and don’t be so lazy...
...McCarthy??s four saves helped make it a sophomore morning, as three of the Crimson’s sophomores saw their shots hit the back of the net. Monica Zdrojewski took the lead with a hat trick, while classmate Ita Barton-Kettleborough tallied two and Lizzie Abbott grabbed one. Freshman Elise Molnar rounded out the score with a goal...
...contrast to “American Pastoral,” Cormac McCarthy??s novel “The Road” has room for love, purpose, and human heroism despite being set in a post-apocalyptic world. “The Road” centers on a father and son who try to survive while traveling through a ravaged American landscape that has been destroyed by some unspecified disaster. Both the inner and outer lives of the father and son are essential to the novel’s message. The external scenes where the pair hide from...
...Cormac McCarthy??s “The Road” is one of the few recent novels that has achieved commercial as well as critical success. Given McCarthy??s elegant minimalist style and simple, episodic plot, I wondered how this post-apocalyptic novel was capable of capturing the national imagination. It was only after attempting to read Philip Roth’s 1997 novel “American Pastoral,” however, that the merits of “The Road” became apparent. One can learn important things from a novel without even...
While I suspect that the commercial success of McCarthy??s work may be due to the tropes of science fiction and action rather than its literary merits, that does not diminish the power of McCarthy??s intensely human portrait of a father and son. Where Roth and many other contemporary novelists write about an ironic and dehumanizing world that leaves characters externally disconnected and spiritually enervated, McCarthy embraces humanity in all of its weakness, madness, and strength. Some people may find detailed digressions on spiritual exhaustion profound, but this reader found it merely exhausting...