Cormac Mccarthy: American Literature's Great Outsider
Posted at 7:34AM Tuesday 26 Feb 2008
For acolytes, McCarthy has over the past decade become the alpha and omega of American fiction. When, last year, the New York Times Book Review polled 200 writers and critics to determine the 25 best American novels of the past quarter-century, McCarthy's gory historical landmark from 1985, Blood Meridian, came third (behind only Toni Morrison's Beloved and Don DeLillo's Underworld). The Border Trilogy that occupied McCarthy through the 1990s – All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain – also made the cut.
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