the road cormac mccarthy barnes and noble

“This is where monsters be, as well as Cohen, a grieving widower too stubborn to move. While Rivers is already inviting inevitable comparisons to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Smith’s canvas is broader and the story even more riveting.” He also manages to make 300 pages of relentless rain so real that you’re surprised your fingers aren’t pruny when you look up from this engrossing story.” Smith resorts to no formula, and his ability to keep you guessing about what will happen next adds tension to long stretches of honed prose. He portrays each character as a human being with a back story and personality: They may make choices that appall or frustrate us, but the characters are rounded and real. “ is a wonderfully cinematic story - but there are no Hollywood clichés in Smith’s prose or plot. “ is a novel that will reside in me for months to come.”

“This promising Mississippi writer has come back to the source and paid homage, in his Southern Gothic way, to the region’s bull-headed will to keep going.” propel this apocalyptic narrative at a compelling clip until the very last page.” A compelling plot, fueled by a mounting sense of tension and hope in the face of increasing hopelessness, will keep readers engrossed to the very end. In contrast to this bleak world, Smith’s prose is lush, descriptive and even beautiful. “This world is chilling-all the more so for its believability-and it is peopled by compelling, fully realized characters, some of whom only exist in the form of ghosts. Michael Farris Smith’s powerful Rivers is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide….A stunning work of speculative fiction.” “A triumphant - and troubling - debut novel about Southern states in the near future punished by relentless rain and flooding. James Lee Burke, New York Times bestselling author of Creole Belle and The Tin Roof Blowdown You can add Michael Farris Smith’s name to the list.” 'Every once in a while an author comes along who’s in love with art and the written language and image and literary experiment and the complexity of his characters and the great mysteries that lie just on the other side of the physical world, writers like William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx.

The road cormac mccarthy barnes and noble