The Pulitzer Prize winning novelist has died aged 89. From the archive
way the world ends: not with a bang but a whisper. A man shivers under a tarpaulin in a forest, murmuring a bedtime story to his young son to keep the darkness at bay. The landscape around them has been charred by a fire of unspecified origin and unknowable extent. Nothing natural has survived the scorching. The trees are leafless, the sky birdless, the streams lifeless. Ash blows in swirls over the blacktop of the roads. Colour is abolished, the earth reduced to its residues.
The landscape is recognisable, just, as a seared version of today’s America. The creased and greasy map by which man and boy navigate is torn from a highway atlas. They scavenge in looted towns whose billboards still pointlessly flog their products. They cross concrete overpasses on which juggernauts have jack-knifed. On and on they walk, heading for the coast—though what succour the ocean might bring them is left always hazy.
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