McCarthy, Cormac
McCarthy, Cormac( 1933– ),novelist born in Rhode Island, educated in Tennessee, and since 1976 resident in El Paso. His fiction includes The Orchard Keeper (1965), concerning grim lives and a murder in the Great Smoky Mountains; Outer Dark (1968), another gothic tale in a Southern setting, treating the wanderings of a woman searching for the son she had by her brother; Child of God (1974), presenting grotesque characters of the Kentucky backwoods; Suttree (1979), about a dropout loner in the violent tenderloin district of Knoxville; Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West (1985), which starts in Nagodoches, Texas, in 1849 and follows a runaway boy as he joins a pirate army to fight in Mexico, and later hooks up with a band of bounty killers of Indians in wide-ranging pillaging and murder; and All the Pretty Horses (1992, National Book Award), which is the first volume of the Border...
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