- French fiction, Littérature western, Histoires d'amour, Ranch life
A Texas cowboy falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, only to discover he has a rival, her pimp. The pimp refuses to let her go because he will lose money and the stage is set for a violent confrontation.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, Picador USA, Seuil
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Italian, German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9782020530590
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“THEY STOOD in the doorway and stomped the rain from their boots and swung their hats and wiped the water from their faces.”
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. He is known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary American writers.
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