The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure.
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A journey through McCarthy’s work is not for the fainthearted, nor the weak-stomached. But these tales of society’s outcasts and misfits are hugely rewarding.
The late American writer was drawn towards death and apocalypse, tet to read his work is also to be exhilarated and enlightened.
Cormac McCarthy, who has died aged 89, was a major American writer with a distinctive voice. In McCarthy’s world, war and violence are primordial realities.
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since The Road in 2006, shows him at the peak of his powers even as he nears his ninetieth year.
At nearly 90 years of age, Cormac McCarthy is striking out in new artistic directions.
Buys, the award-winning novel by Willem Anker, uses lines without credit from the Irish writer - not the first such literary controversy it has raised.
The popularity of zombie apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic narratives has emerged from some of the same economic and cultural currents that gave rise to Trump’s presidency.
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of the Free State
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Associate Professor, English, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Teaching Fellow in American Literature, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee
