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Speaking as another son of a Tennessee industry lawyer—a country music lawyer; it was TVA power that helped turn Nashville into a radio and recording mecca—I think the prime darkness at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, always precariously perched over oblivion, began with his father, a fixer behind the laboratory that powered the possibility of human extinction.
The late novelist’s final books are ambitious portraits of the Western world and the human soul.
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The long, dark road from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris.
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New York Times: McCarthy's books explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.