SOURCE: "The Land of the Wounded Men," in Tribune Books, June 26, 1994, p. 5.
In the following favorable review, Allen praises the descriptive prose in The Crossing, and the "vividly rendered conflict" of The Stonemason. Comparing McCarthy to Melville and Faulkner, the critic lauds these two works, while acknowledging their frequent melodramatic passages.
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