Posted on 07/10/06
McCarthy's dark road to nowhere
The RoadBy Cormac McCarthyKnopf, 241 pages, $30The list of great writers whose work suffered early neglect is long enough that we should wonder how many books are out there at the moment preparing their judgments against us. Herman Melville never recovered from the failure of Moby-Dick. By the early 1940s, all but one of William Faulkner's novels were out of print.
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