The Terror of Living. by Urban Waite
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780857204349 (0857204343)
Publish date: February 1st 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 320
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...