The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 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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