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Hot pursuit; In Cormac McCarthy's riveting new novel, a modern cowboy goes on the run.(No Country for Old Men)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Byline: Taylor Antrim
Cormac McCarthy's celebrated trilogy, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, presented an American frontier of restless mid-century cowboys, dark-eyed senoritas, and horses loyal as family. Just in time for the last days of summer, his new novel returns to the same starkly beautiful Texas-Mexico borderland as those best-selling books, but No Country for Old Men (Knopf) is set in 1980, across an unforgiving landscape of roadside motels, drug runners, and hit men. And while McCarthy's sensitivity hasn't dulled-the novel can be thoughtful and tender-he has given this story a very dark heart.
No Country for Old Men is composed chiefly of dialogue, with vivid descriptions scattered around, lending the novel a brisk, breathless pace. While out hunting antelope, Llewelyn Moss, a 36-year-old Vietnam vet, discovers a grim scene of bodies and ...
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- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine October 1, 2006 700+ words
A BARE DESCRIPTION OF CORMAC McCarthy's new novel, The Road (Knopf), sounds painfully bleak. The story is post-Apocalyptic and tracks a father and his son making their way...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Asa Baber June 12, 1994 700+ words
The Crossing By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf. $23. Because...let me begin with Cormac McCarthy's words, not mine...at random from his new novel, The Crossing...read that sample of Cormac McCarthy's writing carefully...
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- Magazine article from: Esquire Chiarella, Tom September 1, 2006 700+ words
...survivors to deal with before they set up the groundwork for the new world. Enter Cormac McCarthy, the elemental prose stylist of our time, with his new novel, The Road (Knopf, $24), a book so intensely unlike his previous work that you...
- Blood & grace: the fiction of Cormac McCarthy. (Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Arnold, Edwin T. November 4, 1994 700+ words
Cormac McCarthy's novels compose an extended journey. His characters travel the mountain...a gypsy encountered by his protagonist Billy Parham in McCarthy's new novel, The Crossing, but it could apply equally well to McCarthy, who himself...
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- Magazine article from: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Rothfork, John January 1, 2006 700+ words
...is telling.--The Crossing, 155 Cormac McCarthy's readers are unanimous in recognizing...Sullivan reflected that "[s]ince Cormac McCarthy arrived on the literary scene almost...Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy is the idea that McCarthy's books...
- Reeds and hides: Cormac McCarthy's domestic spaces.
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review Witek, Terri January 1, 1994 700+ words
NEARLY ALL THE PROTAGONISTS in Cormac McCarthy novels flee from or lose their homes...explored without sentimentality in Cormac McCarthy's six novels. No one would claim that Cormac McCarthy is a domestic writer: in a June 24...
- Oprah chooses bleak Cormac McCarthy novel for book club.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) March 28, 2007 700+ words
...from your newspaper. When novelist Cormac McCarthy joins Oprah Winfrey on a forthcoming...Texas, and former editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal Online. "It's a little...Dianne C. Luce, president of the Cormac McCarthy Society, said, "Oh, my goodness...
- Review: The Road By Cormac McCarthy.(Breaking News and Opinion)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Basilandspice.com November 15, 2009 700+ words
...well rank as the seminal work that places Cormac McCarthy in line for a Nobel Prize as our generation...more time? That's the next question for Cormac McCarthy on the road. Cormac McCarthy is the author of several successful novels...
