The novel was by Cormac Maccarthy who has been called one of the most violent writers in American history.
He’s a brilliant stylist in an age when about six people care about style or brilliance. Oh wait, Harold Bloom is dead. Make that five people.
Bloom is alive. Were you joking?
I read the book. Got sucked in by the pace and then turned off by the pointlessness of it all. Does Tommy Lee Jones every play anything but a cop?