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Why author Cormac McCarthy’s illicit affair with a girl of 16 changes everything we knew about his fiction
In 1976 a 16-year-old girl had a chance encounter with a 42-year-old novelist by a motel swimming pool in ­Arizona, in what proved to be a game-changing moment in the history of modern American ...
Why Cormac McCarthy’s illicit affair changes everything we knew about his fiction
The news that McCarthy groomed a teenage girl has shocked the literary world – and revealed the enormous impact she had on ...