Complex sentence: A reviewer of Cormac McCarthy once called the novelist's work a good, long scream in the ear. "The Book of Men and Women", with its rogue characters and laundry lists of loss, pursues a similar effect.
Split into simpler sentences: A reviewer of Cormac McCarthy once called the novelist's work' a good, long scream in the ear. ' "The Book of Men and Women", with its rogue characters and laundry lists of loss, pursues a similar effect.