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Readers would be hard-pressed to find a religious creed in the often dark works of Cormac McCarthy. But the writer s depictions of darkness are never devoid of light, however tragic or precarious its place in the narratives.
The writer had a famously improbable ride to literary stardom. The fact that he ever escaped obscurity is a testament to just how serendipitous his path was.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of novels that included “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” has died. Cormac McCarthy was 89. His publisher said he died Tuesday of natural