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Cormac McCarthy: Critical Review by John Lewis Longley Jr.

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Cormac McCarthy
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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West Summary

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SOURCE: "The Nuclear Winter of Cormac McCarthy," in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 62, No. 4, Autumn, 1986, pp. 746-50.

In the following essay, Longley notes that every major episode in Blood Meridian is based on a real event in history. The critic comments upon the themes evident in every McCarthy novel: the "pervasiveness of evil," the "usurpation of authority," and the "denial of responsibility."

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