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For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genre
Read full article: For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genreIn his obituaries, Cormac McCarthy has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville among others, those excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised narratives to tragic and poetic heights.