McCarthy, Cormac (Vol. 4) - McCarthy, Cormac 1933–
McCarthy, Cormac 1933–
McCarthy is an American novelist. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 15-16.)
Incest and murder in the backwoods of East Tennessee sometime during the nineteenth century are principal ingredients in the witch's brew concocted by [McCarthy] in a second novel [Outer Dark] artfully designed to prickle the skin and tighten the scalp of any susceptible reader. Three sinister embodiments of evil cast their malignant shadows from time to time while brother and sister search for each other and the sickly infant born out of their unnatural union in an atmosphere redolent of unmentionable horrors that frequently materialize as sin but no redemption, crime but no punishment. Had Mr. McCarthy given more of a philosophical cast to his tale of terror so that the torment, suffering, and anguish might have a meaning more real than apparent, his narrative would have possessed a significance all its own, quite apart from its...
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