![]() The dissolution of his parents' marriage has left him the first I, for one, disliked the Southern books, but love the Westerns.Īll the Pretty Horses tells the story of 16 year old John GradyĬole. Was having sex in a watermelon patch, with a freakin' watermelon! ![]() I couldn't have been fifty pages into Suttree when someone The confusionĭeepened as those of us who had newly discovered him, returned to his earlier The book and that it was much darker than they understood. Many said he had sold out, others claimed that the mass audience misunderstood In 1993.) It also lead to the inevitable sniping by his adherents (The novel won the 1992 National BookĪward for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction West and in 1992, All the Pretty Horses, the first book in whatĮnded up being his Border Trilogy, established him as a Western authorĪnd, not coincidentally, won him the audience and mainstream awards that ![]() Meridian in 1985, McCarthy began to turn his attention to the American Heir to Faulkner, his books were Southern gothic-drenched in violence, For the first twenty or thirty years of his career Cormac McCarthy wasĪ little known but critically acclaimed cult author. ![]()
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