Word: thornbush
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...began to write in Texas, McCarthy's published work remained a hard slog for readers who couldn't cut through his syntactical thornbush, but in 1979 he brought out Suttree, apparently the last book set in the South he had in him, and it was rough, gnarly, funny as hell and, for the first time, accessible. Here is the novel on the Big Question...
...houses." Food is scarce, sanitation minimal, and disease threatens with every drink from the nearby river. They fear betrayal. July can apparently keep the members of his extended family quiet, but perhaps "he could not prevent other people, living scattered round about, who knew the look of every thornbush, from discovering there were thornbushes that overgrew a white man's car, and passing on that information to any black army patrol...
...their gala wedding reception, he drags her outside and begs for fellatio. Then there's Judy's father, whom we first see presenting the newlyweds with a generous check; yet, in minutes, he commands his daughter to bring him cigarettes and ignores her to watch TV. And Col. Thornbush: at first, a firm but kind father figure who makes Judy his protege--then tries to rape her. Henri, the loving and compassionate Renaissance man becomes--like all other men--an insensitive, abusive monster. As he places the wedding band on Judy's finger she looks into his face and sees...
...hang out his shingle in any American city-as a coiffeur. If the adulteries of art take care of a woman's stockings, shoes, nails, gowns, complexion and overweight, her hair these days is just as skillfully composed to look as if it had been dragged through a thornbush backward. Artfully...
Scott journeyed to native encampments on the wild thornbush plains. He bumped over rough motor tracks, got lost in deserts, sat with chiefs and councillors and took down their words. The tribesmen deputized him to speak for them to the outside world, sold some of their cattle to pay for his trips to sessions...