The Terror of Living: A Novel
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316097888 (0316097888)
Publish date: January 12th 2012
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
The Terror of Living is a fine first novel, and without a doubt, a page-turning thriller that will keep you reading late into the night. The comparisons to Cormac McCarthy, and especially No Country For Old Men are appropriate. In fact, sometimes the prose is imitative in an obvious way, but Waite i...
He sat in the near-dark, one finger running thoughtfully along the deckle edges of the pages, remembering how his dad used to love him an awful lot then less so. Or so it seemed. But you never know. Love worked that way.In another room in the city, the blond man ate his popcorn but it didn't fill...