SOURCE: "Dream Work," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. 40, No. 12, June 24, 1993, pp. 5-6, 8-10.
In the following review, Donoghue discusses All the Pretty Horses in relation to McCarthy's other novels, asserting that McCarthy is at his "best with what nature gives or imposes, rather than with the observations of culture."
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