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The Passenger: McCarthy following a familiar road with ‘Western’ thriller
In a story heavy with philosophy and ideas, the renowned writer weaves a tale of a Hemingway-type salvage diver, racked with grief for the dead sister he loved, who is sent to investigate an airline crash at sea
Of course the protagonist is called Bobby Western because Cormac McCarthy, who sits at the top table of modern American writers beside DeLillo, Roth and a few others, made his name with Westerns. Books that dealt with the mythological landscape of America like his towering masterpiece Blood Meridian, and The Border Trilogy which secured his place in the pantheon. Even No Country For Old Men could be classed as a modern horse opera.
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