Remembering Cormac McCarthy: A Literary Giant and Master of Subversive Cinema

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Source: The Independent
Remembering Cormac McCarthy: A Literary Giant and Master of Subversive Cinema
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Tributes have been pouring in for Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and No Country for Old Men, who died at the age of 89. Stephen King called him "maybe the greatest American novelist of my time", while comedian Patton Oswalt said he was a "great favourite". McCarthy's work was characterised by his torqued language and the rhythms of his prose, which Robert MacFarlane said he "worked into wire-flashes of lightning & great rolls of thunder".

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