I’m basically looking for exceptionally well written, pacy literary fiction!
Cormac McCarthy is one of my all time favourite authors and ‘The Road’ might be the best book I’ve ever read. I’d love to find another writer who uses this same kind of rugged, poetic, often devastating Hemingway-esque prose, but who also has an eye on narrative drive and taut story structure.
It doesn’t have to be McCarthy-like in terms of content – I’m open to any topic and subject matter. Just full of masterful prose and description that makes you put the book down and go “far out, that’s beautiful.”
I’ve been looking for this for a while – in some ways, Tana French comes close, but her prose is a bit looser/more verbose than I’m looking for. David Vann and Hemingway himself are very close as well, but their books don’t have the focus on story and narrative drive I’m after.
Thanks so much in advance!!
by micromute
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Maybe give Kent Meyers or Annie Proulx a try.
Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, both by Abraham Verghese, contain beautiful prose and well-written stories (both are family sagas, which I love).
Give James Lee Burke a shot.
Hmmmm, maybe Colum McCann? Try “Let the Great World Spin.”