The Brutal Beauty of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’
It took Cormac McCarthy a decade to write “Blood Meridian.” Mr. McCarthy, who died at age 89 on Tuesday, pursued this bleak western with the same obsessiveness that he did all his writing, moving to the American Southwest in the mid-’70s to aid his research and enduring poverty to dedicate time to…
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