A Slow-Burning Tale of Sub-Arctic Cold in ‘White River Crossing’
Gold is the driving force behind the action in Ian McGuire’s new novel.
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Hell is a Cold Place in Ian McGuire’s ‘North Water’
Inevitably, The North Water carries echoes of Melville and Lord Jim, but the sensibility behind Ian McGuire’s engrossing new novel is unmistakably Cormac McCarthy. With its exquisitely detailed acts of violence – each more graphic and disturbing than the next – the author depicts a hellish world that, like much of McCarthy’s work, is both unsparing and utterly convincing.