The language licks, batters, wounds – a poetic, troubled rush of debris,” Charyn wrote. “The book comes at us like a horrifying flood. Jerome Charyn’s description of Suttree, in The New York Times’ 1979 review, could well be about any of McCarthy’s novels. Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, was renowned for stark and violent novels of the American South and West that were distinguished by a merciless vision and nearly biblical prose.įrom the start his writing drew comparisons to novelists as different as William Faulkner and Mark Twain, but his themes were always and recognisably his own: justice, despair, the futile but urgent need for hope in a fallen world.
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