Cormac McCarthy was American literature’s most famous lone wolf. While neither hermit nor recluse, he was a private man who avoided publicity. But, perhaps the most confounding fact about McCarthy is there seemed to be two of him.
was set in the West and in Mexico but moved forward in time to the 20th Century. And where the earlier book was crafted in prose so rich it could rot your teeth, the new book’s language was as clear as water: "They rode up out of the river among the willows and rode singlefile upstream through the shallows onto a long gravel beach where they took off their hats and turned and looked back at the country they'd left. No one spoke.
, the funny parts just seem to flow from the characters. Jimmy Blevins, the brassy little teenager the protagonists meet early in the novel, is a character Twain would have been happy to create.All the Pretty Horses
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