Among academics and McCarthy’s legion of obsessive readers, the essential question about his oeuvre has long been: What’s better, early Cormac McCarthy or late?
His 'No Country for Old Men', made into a film by Joel and Ethan Coen, gave the world the indelible image of Javier Bardem as nihilistic hit man Anton Chigurh, dispatching his victims with a pneumatic bolt gun meant for cattle
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