SOURCE: "Silurian Southern," in National Review, Vol. 31, No. 11, March 16, 1979, pp. 368-69.
In the following review Davenport discusses the Southern influences in McCarthy's novels, and praises the novelist's originality and skill in rendering the "outrageous and the macabre."
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