Cast a Cold Eye

"The McCarthy pictures have horror in them, and all her characters live in hell, but there is nothing depressing about reading her stories. Her style has such verve and swiftness, is so compelling, that the reader follows after her, on the scavenger hunt for the revealing incident, the ultimate perception that will give away another person and deliver him, naked and quivering, into his understanding. There is an intellectual satisfaction to be found here, a gratification in a style that is so perfect a tool for its purpose."McCarthy, Mary is the author of 'Cast a Cold Eye' with ISBN 9780156154444 and ISBN 0156154447.